Praying For the Next Generation

    Praying For the Next Generation Psalms 71:17-18 17 O God, You have taught me from my youth, And I still declare Your wondrous deeds. 18 And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to all who are to come.”   In the Old …

Listening to Those Around You Who Are Hurting

Do we listen to what is going on around us? Do we listen to more than just the words? I remember back in the fall, I was talking with one of our new adult leaders and they mentioned something to the affect of: “Are any of our students hurting? They seem like they have everything together. “ I then proceeded …

How to Comfort Someone Through Loss

Throughout our lives, we will encounter people who have lost loved ones, and people who are hurting. It might be a going to a funeral or comforting someone going through a difficult situation. So how do comfort them?  This week (April 2015), my wife’s grandmother passed away. While she was a godly woman, it was still hard on my wife …

The Key To Wisdom

  The opening paragraph in Proverbs lays out the purpose of the book, main themes and authors. The author is Solomon, probably written to one of his sons. The purpose of the book is to know wisdom, instruction and understanding and wisdom from God. He ends this section with probably the main theme or truth of the whole book. And …