Parents and children constitute a family where there is either happiness, contentment, respect, and obedience or unhappiness, resentment, anger, and rebellion. Paul tells us and our children to each do our part in building a happy family life. But sometimes, as parents, teachers, and mentors, our focus is conformity. We...

The caulker on a wooden ship keeps water from seeping in the seams and sinking the ship. Likewise, each church and family needs caulkers to keep sin and worldliness from seeping into our lives and shipwrecking our faith. A caulker is not a busybody – one who is into everyone's...

Our theme scripture today speaks of potters who formed pots from clay, planted gardens, and then set up hedges to protect the plants. God refers to himself as a potter in Jeremiah 18:6. Can you imagine the hands of God molding and shaping us into His image? He calls us...

When we limit the power of the body of Jesus to a given meeting location or day of the week. We need more faith in the promise of Scripture that “the God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not...

When Jesus said this to Peter, Peter probably could have never imagined his profession of faith in Christ would catapult the building of a worldwide church. In the 4th century A.D., early believers built a basilica over Peter's grave in Rome, Italy, that today, millions of believers go on pilgrimage...