Daily Messages

Have you ever felt you were sliding down into success…headed for a place the world considers lofty...one you know to be a destination glittering with corruptible gold?

There are giants in the world and in your heart. Their stature is so imposing you fear they will overpower you and your faith.

Too often we make “audition room” judgments of ourselves and others. We ask whether we have the right “look”…the “X factor” appearance that marks our culture’s ideal of successful people.

Remove the bridle from a spirited horse and you’ll be in for a dangerous ride. So it is with the impulsive person. Without character to steer him or her, only tragedy awaits along the path of real life.

In the gritty, mean streets of real life who can you trust, the man or woman of character or those who will cut corners to win a temporary victory?

If someone took a magnifying glass to your real life and inspected it thoroughly, what would He find? Integrity in the tiniest places or compromise in the spots we thought were hidden?

In real life, we rarely take time to look at the character of people, so we settle for their outward appearance.

What happens on the day you decide God can’t meet your needs? When you choose to fill that empty space in your real life with someone or something other than Him?

In real life, designed by God for purpose and meaning, we're often confronted with trivial, hollow religion. A dead faith that sucks the marrow from living. How can we avoid its poison and thrive in the spirit of Christ?