A Reason For Hope

06/17/2026

💬 God and God alone can rescue me from the dimwitted depression that results from dreams not ever fully realized.

🙏🏻 Dear Lord Jesus,

It's a tough pill to swallow that this is not paradise and that I am not the knight in shining armor ruling over it. The spoon full of sugar that helps this medicinal truth go down is that you are fashioning me into the person you want me to be. You are ever-present in all the resources you have put in my life, like family, friends, coworkers, education, challenges, and most of all, your Holy Spirit, who brings grace and truth to me every day.

Therefore, I have contentment and hope. I am content with my less-than-perfect circumstance, and I am hopeful that life is looking up and finally will end in glory, where I will find the paradise for which I long. Today will be a good day because of the contentment and hope you have given me during my fallen life.

Amen.

06/16/2026

💬 Christ's love has made us rich in generosity so that we freely give without fear of losing anything.

🙏🏻 Dear Lord,

Although I have grown up in the faith since being a small child, I can still remember times when I forsook your grace and presence and lived as Paul described Titus's friends, a victim to passion and plagued by bitterness. Your kindness and love have rescued me from that dog-eat-dog mentality.

As an heir of yours, I have all I need to feel settled, rich, and benevolent. I want to share this "wealth" of the soul with whomever I meet. Help me to view everyone today as a soul who needs the overflow of love that you have poured into me.

Make me gentle, kind, and encouraging. When I do not know how to encourage them, help my loved ones who are suffering to find their wealth in you while they battle the challenges you have let them face too.

Amen.

06/15/2026

What truly matters “on the journey of your life”? Living before an audience of One, clinging to and sharing God’s Word “in season and out of season,” and anchoring hope in Christ rather than in achievements, wealth, or human approval.

At the center of it all is Jesus, the righteous Judge with scars in His hands, who has already paid for sin and promises a crown of righteousness to all who long for His appearing.

Watch, listen, and read more about this Sunday's sermon "A Guide to Thrive"

What truly matters “on the journey of your life”? Living before an audience of One, clinging to and sharing God’s Word “in season and out of season,” and anchoring hope in Christ rather than in achievements, wealth, or human approval. At the center of it all is Jesus, the righteous Judge w...

06/15/2026

📖 "He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."
-1 Corinthians 1:8-9

🙏🏻 Dear Father,

Thank you for promising that you have given me your Son to fellowship with in the word and prayer. I have his support and help to make it through this life and to the end with my faith intact.

I am convinced that if you did not give me the help I need from Jesus and the Holy Spirit, who work through your Word and the church, I would be a wandering sheep who traveled from one hill to another, far away from you and the truth. It gives me peace, knowing that your plans and schemes to keep me close to you are endless.

Amen.

06/12/2026

Genesis 28:10-17, John 1:43-51. How God knows us and still wants us to know he lives us.

06/12/2026

💬 Only with God in our corner can we stay in the ring with Satan.

📖 "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman.

"For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so, they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

-Genesis 3:4-7

06/11/2026

Sooner or later, everything, except God and people, ends up being sold at garage sale values.

06/10/2026

Dear Heavenly Father,

There is so much pressure today in the news, in high schools, universities, and in the general public to believe that all faiths are the creation of human minds springing from our culture and our need for security. These voices want to mute the offensive and beautiful message that you are the only true God and that you want all humanity back under your redeeming grace.

Help me not to believe the muting lie that all faiths are equal. You are the only God for me and everyone else. Give me boldness to challenge everyone who is lost around me with your confrontational love.

Amen.

06/09/2026

📖 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
-Ephesians 6:10

💬 True spiritual strength is a gift from Christ and not a force or a philosophy.