The one thing we taught our children when they were young was to share their things with others. Sharing is not natural, it is a learned habit. Mikki and I could not be prouder than to see our children as adults still willing to share with others what God has blessed them with. When its […]

When I was a child, if my mother met someone who was grumpy she said, they must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Some people just start their day off on the wrong foot. They get out of bed looking for things to be bad instead of anticipating a […]

We all have things that we are not good at. As adults, we tend to stay away from the things we are not good at and do only things that are our strengths so that our ego won’t be crushed. What part of life is your weakness? Is it talking to people about their souls? […]

How many people do you know today that have the same occupation as their parents? How many children do you know that behave much like their parents? How many children do you know that have the same habits (good and bad) as their parents? How many Alabama or Auburn fans raise children that pull for […]

Nothing gets our attention more quickly than pain. We immediately know where we are hurting. I was talking with a man yesterday who told me that he hurt all the time. When someone mentions pain, it brings back every memory of where we hurt or have hurt. There is nothing that wears on you like […]

Today’s devotion spoke right to our hearts. It’s so easy to get cross with people who do things we do not like. It’s so easy to let division come between us and people who do not see things our way. God tells us that we are not to bear a grudge or seek to get […]

I was in our local Walmart and I could hear a child screaming across the store. I had to pick some items up in that area, so I got to see the child in action. The parent finally gave in and put the item in the buggy and the child stopped crying. I thought if […]

Last Sunday morning as I was leaving service I saw one of our young girls crying. I asked her if she was having a bad day and said shook her head yes. I said, do you think today is going to get better when you get home and she shook her head no. I saw […]

The commercials on TV talk about solar lights. You can put them everywhere and light up the darkness places around your home. They don’t need batteries, they work by being recharged by the sun. If they are put in a shaded area they won’t work because they receive no sunlight to charge by. If you […]

My devotion this morning was on a very familiar story of Jesus walking on the water. The disciples were in the midst of a storm in the middle of the night when Jesus came walking on top of the waves coming to them. They all cried out with fear, maybe they were calling out to […]

How many times in a day do you say or hear the words, “I wish they would hurry up.” We live in a microwave world. We want everything at our finger tips and if we have to wait, then we will just go somewhere else. My morning devotion talked about being patient, and refusing to […]

My wife often tells me that I am asleep before my head hits the pillow at night. I jokingly tell her that I have a clear conscience so I can fall asleep quickly. The truth is the world is full of people who can not rest at night. They toss and turn all night thinking […]

I don’t know about you, but, the older I get, every morning there is another part of my body that doesn’t want to cooperate like previous years. It is easy for me to complain about each part that hurts, doesn’t want to bend right, or let’s me know that I over extended it the day […]

How often have you shared a situation in your life and someone responded by saying, “I’ll be praying for you.” That seems life an easy answer to your complex issues, but, it is one of the most powerful means of helping you. Prayer changes things, it even changes the mind of God. In Exodus, God […]

I think sometimes we talk so much about spiritual warfare that we leave the wrong impression on people. We do have an enemy and he is working against us daily to distract us from fulfilling the purpose God has for our life, but there is so much more. If all we faced were continuous battles […]

The biggest battles often comes first thing in the morning, often just as you are getting out of bed. Satan will begin to remind you of everything that went wrong yesterday as well as every failure you made. Satan goal is to keep you living in your yesterday and steal your today from you. Don’t […]

My devotion this morning said if I would put God first everyday that He would give me everything I need in life. That is quite a promise, but, it is also one of the hardest things for us to do. It a matter of putter God first in everything we do. Simple thing? Yes! Easy […]

You and I are capable of achieving certain things in life. I have met many talented people in life, people who could do many more things than I can do, but, I never met anyone who can do everything. I do believe the level of success we are capable of reaching is linked to the […]

I hear people everyday talking about how tired they are. You would think we are back in the old days when people got up before daylight and did manual labor until dark. People who are always talking about tired can’t imagine what previous generations did to provide for their family. So, how do we get […]

It is graduation time in Alabama. Colleges, high school, even kindergarten classes are graduation. I have heard students in college and high school talk about the stress of taking those final exam tests. Tests that prove that you are ready to step into the next level of life, profession, or school. Tests were first given […]

If you are like most of us, finding a gift that says how you feel toward you mother is hard to find. If you could find that gift, it would be too expensive to buy. It is just difficult to say thank you for all a mother does. A meal to eat, a trip to […]