Main Point and Overview:   You are leaving your kids something…what is it? The fact is that the Bible is filled with focus on “what’s next!” From the Israelites pursuing the Promised Land of Canaan to the modern-day person giving his life to Jesus for dying on The Cross, there is always “what’s next!” While it is easy to try to survive day to day, you are meant to be pursuing a future that is defi...  Read More

READ 2 Timothy 2:1-7   Here in this letter to Timothy, Paul is urging Timothy to discern who are faithful men, spread the word to those who are willing to learn, then teach others and entrust to these "faithful men" the things which Timothy learned from Paul. It’s the ministry of multiplication, and it should not be kept to oneself, but be passed on.   In the Bible, soldiers, athletes, and farmers...  Read More

We have all heard the phrase “the sins of the father.” It can be characterized in a couple of ways. First, a sinful lifestyle whose repercussions impact the following generation. And while the Scripture does say that a child is not held responsible for the sins of his or her father, there still can be temporal consequences. Perhaps the single most impactful sin, or failure, of a father is to be ab...  Read More

Wow! Such a powerful question in such a small portion of today's scripture reference. As we read through 2 Kings 2:1-9, I find it astonishing Elisha commitment to following Elijah. Each time Elijah had to go to a new place Elisha went with him. However, the catch was every time they got to the place they were traveling to, Elisha was met by the company of the prophet and was reminded that Elijah w...  Read More

As I write this devo, on the 13th, tomorrow being the 14th, it will be 15 years to the day, that I surrendered my life to the Lord. I had been fighting a raging battle. A battle between the life I wanted to live, or listen to the loving and kind advice from a friend who was unrelentingly pursuing me with the Gospel. Some of my closest friends were atheists, I enjoyed the rebellious felling of maki...  Read More

Read 1 Kings 19 (As long as you’ve read 1 Kings 17 & 18 first…You need the context to really grasp the weight and emotion of chapter 19) Here is the abbreviated summary of the previous chapters: Elijah is a Prophet of the Lord, Ahab is a godless and wayward King of Israel, he is married to the godless and evil woman, Jezebel, who goes down in history as the most evil woman in the Bible. Both King ...  Read More