Are we willing to love them?

It is estimated that on average 1,202,000 abortions are performed monthly worldwide. Some studies show there are approximately 2 million gay men living in the United States and almost 1 million lesbians (I think that estimate is probably low). One study showed that on June 30, 2006 there were 2,245,189 prisoners held in Federal or [...]

Old Friends

Re-post from PlaceitattheCross.com – 06/14/07
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I received a call today from some old friends whom I had not spoken to in many years and a thought occurred to me:  What impact would we notice if we made the effort to maintain our close relationships throughout life?  How much more meaningful would our lives be knowing we [...]

Thank You “Secret Sister”

There it sat, on the bottom row of cluttered and unorganized shelves at the Humane Society Thrift Store, a copy of Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest.” I had been in search of a new devotional and this was one I had often thought of. So I dislodged the book from between copies of [...]

Faith Redefined

In his book The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning shares the following:
“If a random sample of one thousand American Christians were taken today, the majority would define faith as belief in the existence of God. In earlier times it did not take faith to believe that God existed – almost everybody took that for granted. Rather, [...]

God is Good All the Time!

This post originally appeared on www.blog.myspace.com/jm_waters on 28 Nov 2006 and was the framework for my testimony given at King’s Baptist Church which you can listen to here .
God is Good All the Time!
Think about the power of this statement for a moment.
If God is Good All the Time, then:
He is Loving – All the Time!
He [...]