By Melissa Wuske One Sunday my church focused on personalities by breaking into groups based on Gary Smalley’s Lion/Otter/Golden Retriever/Beaver personality types. The goal was to talk about what skills and gifts each type brings to the church and to relationship with God, and to understand how to better relate with each other. But […]
The Lesson and Life — for June 22. 2014
By Paul Cole Today I turned 65. I was supposed to write this article on hope for a new day. I can’t think of a worse assignment on this day in my life or the best assignment of my life. Is there life after 65? Well, give me a few years and I will […]
The Lesson and Life — for June 15, 2014
By Paul Cole As Christians we want to live holy lives because God commanded us to and because he is holy. Given our best intentions, we find ourselves trying to deal with the lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and the pride of life. How do we regain our holiness and allow […]
The Lesson and Life — for June 8, 2014
By Paul Cole During the month of June each year, we see many precious promises made in wedding ceremonies. Likewise God has given us many precious promises that go with us for today and for the future. We want to look at two wonderful promises that God has given us and to the people […]
The Lesson and Life — for June 1
By Paul Cole Have you ever disappointed God? As Christians, we know that we have failed God many times. Probably one of God’s deepest disappointments comes when we try to play games with him. We have company—in the days of Haggai, the people of Israel were playing games with God. They had beautiful homes, […]