When You’ve Had Enough look for solutions! There comes a time in your life when you have done well, yet, out of the blue an entire month or year will become complete destruction.  You feel like you are competing with Job on daily catastrophes, and then it starts to rain…

Going the wrong way on a freeway is easy to define, that driver is wrong! How do you help someone who is going the wrong way in their doctrine or has a personal idea that does not match Scripture at all? Saul of Tarsus believed that he was doing the…

Philippians 3:14c In chemistry, a solute is something that dissolves into a solvent. When I make my morning coffee, I add a spoonful of honey. The honey dissolves completely. It doesn’t change the coffee into something else. The honey loses its separate identity inside the greater substance. This illustrates our…

Philippians 3:14b “prize of the high calling” What is this really about? A harp in heaven and a set of wings? This phrase comes up to be a common Roman idea and real award for valor, for self-sacrifice and for great courage shown by the toughest of soldiers. These were…

Philippians 3:14a This is not just shooting to the target. This is not just running to the finish line. This is a completely different mind that takes you from your nominal lifestyle to your next level. This is not an easy adjustment to the end of a program; it is…

This is not just shooting to the target. This is not just running to the finish line. This is a completely different mind that takes you from your nominal lifestyle to your next level. This is not an easy adjustment to the end of a program; it is the painful…

Philippians 3:13d I have postponed every hope for the future, every goal for life, every dream, plan, project and idea… BECAUSE I WAS stuck on the past and its big fat belly-flop of fails. My mindset was only this past thinking; BUT Christ has me thinking in the present. I…

Philippians 3:13c – part 2 I messed up. 30 years ago… I was a husband, a father of 2 boys that I was adopting, a helper at a small church and running a successful business. Then I found that the unresolved sin of sexual immorality was ready, willing and able…

Philippians 3:13c – part 1 The presence of damage in your childhood years has the potential of making you mentally stronger and allows you to mature sooner than others. Some of these damages are seen like an amputated leg from an injury. Then there are the damages that are felt;…

Philippians 3:13b I am so easily distracted by the many things that are in my head. I don’t even need other people or outside events to catch my attention away from what I know that I have to do right now. This is an amazing problem with so many of…