Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. 1 Corinthians 6:7 Do you have issues with your brothers and sisters? Do you complain about the service, music, message or just don't like some fellow believers? If so, then we've already lost and we're supporting our adversary. Paul has been preaching unity in the church...

Send us Fan Mail So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone. Genesis 35:2-3 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and rel...

Send us Fan Mail Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat w...

Send us Fan Mail This poor man called, and the LORD heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. Psalms 34:6-7 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God....

Send us Fan Mail Hi - My daughter is a professional equestrian. She had a bad fall and broke her hip and femur. Please pray for her. She faces surgery soon. Her name is Rebecca. I'll return when I get back into town. Thanks   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? 1 Corinthians 4:7 The Corinthians valued advancement, knowledge and gain highly. They compared their teachers, their wealth and positions against what others had. Again, it sounds very familiar to us! Paul attempts to temper this pride with the reality of God's blessings. Spurgeon writes...

Send us Fan Mail   Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, Lamentations 3:41 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future —all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 Kent Hughes writes of the Corinthians, "The Corinthians lived in a meritocratic society. They were interested in being upwardly mobil...

Send us Fan Mail Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. John 16:24 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy...

Send us Fan Mail For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 1 Corinthians 2:11-12 But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Paul writes to the Cor...

Send us Fan Mail But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. Exodus 32:11 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:17-18 Paul only preached the cross. He didn't use eloquent words, but shared the power of t...

Send us Fan Mail  But if you will seek God earnestly  and plead with the Almighty,  if you are pure and upright,  even now he will rouse himself on your behalf  and restore you to your prosperous state.  Your beginnings will seem humble,  so prosperous will your future be. Job 8:5-7 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the w...

Send us Fan Mail  In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you  and wait expectantly. Psalms 5:3 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy an...

Send us Fan Mail Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Colossians 4:2-3 Kent Hughes writes about Colossians 4:2, "At the very heart of our communication must be full devotion to prayer. The idea here is persistence in prayer — continual p...

Send us Fan Mail  Hide your face from my sins  and blot out all my iniquity.  Create in me a pure heart, O God,  and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  Do not cast me from your presence  or take your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of your salvation  and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalms 51:9-12 This is my favorite prayer! It's as if David is reading my heart and...

Send us Fan Mail set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things Colossians 3:1-2 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:...

Send us Fan Mail See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. Colossians 2:8-10 Paul continues to...

Send us Fan Mail We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way Colossians 1:9-10 Charles Spurgeon reminds us how can live Colossians 1:9-10, "We cannot more wisely show our love to our friends than by, first, acknowledging the Grace whi...

Send us Fan Mail And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. Ephesians 6:18 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in Joh...

Send us Fan Mail Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9 Kent Hughes writes ab...

Send us Fan Mail But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge Psalms 73:28 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail  Then I called on the name of the LORD:  “LORD, save me! Psalms 116:4 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Colossians 4:2-3 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word...

Send us Fan Mail But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ Philippians 3:7-8 AW Tozer writes about one's ability to know God and truly experience Him, "The Christi...