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The Plateau Valley Church has less than 50 members, yet they feed hundreds of needy people each week. The church is located Colbran, Colorado, a ranching town with a population of 700. Every Friday the volunteers pass out food to over one hundred families from the community. Before handing out food,…

A picture of a young man taken in a Starbucks coffee shop in Hong Kong became an Internet sensation because it apparently showed that the man would let nothing come between him and the daily news. The Chinese city was hit by heavy rain and severe flooding as residents braved two typhoons, flooding, and…

All excuses are not created equal. Recently a Canadian resident found a “postal worker's delivery failure notice” in his mailbox explaining why the postal worker did not leave a package at his home—it was because there was a “bear at door.” "Ok, fair enough” the man tweeted, “that's a decent reason to…

Hiroo Onoda died in January 2014. Onoda was a lieutenant in the Japanese army stationed on the Philippine island of Lubang during World War II. When his commander left the island he ordered Onoda to stay and fight. He carried out those orders faithfully for the next 29 years. The Japanese government…

There's a new phenomenon in our culture today, the "selfie,” which is a self-taken picture. In the "old days" (maybe 2 years ago), people would stand in front of the mirror to grab a selfie by taking a picture of their own reflection. Nowadays, with the additional camera on the business side of everyone's…

A Welsh pastor plans to carry a 12-foot wooden cross across Wales in four weeks. Clive Cornish has set a goal of completed the walk within 4 weeks. Cornish plans to use the walk to pray for his home country and share his faith with the people he meets along the way. He did the same thing ten years ago,…

Unless our hearts are broken, our wills surrendered, our sin exposed, and our cool logic abandoned, we are only imitation Christians who are aliens to the life of grace, who mimic true faith through learning and practice. Duane A. Garret, vol. 19A, Hosea, Joel, electronic ed., Logos Library System; The…

Now in the first place, seizing the opportunity is important because of the nature of the opportunity itself. After all, we’re talking about eternity. We’re talking about the difference between heaven and hell. We’re talking about the difference between eternal life and eternal death. It doesn’t get…

That’s what William Borden did. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, or perhaps you might say a golden calf in his back yard. He was heir to the Borden dairy estate and, because of this, was a millionaire by the age of 21. As you can imagine, he went to Yale for his education. But William was…

I recently began a refinancing of my home. Interest rates had fallen and I was trying to lower my interest rate and pay things off earlier. A couple of weeks ago, as I was facing the deadline, they called me and said I had to clear something up before they’d give me the loan. It seems that I had an equity…

SURRENDER In the book, Dying to Live, author Clive Calver offers an unique example of what it means to take up our cross every day. Calver writes, “An old friend of mine once put it very simply. He confessed, ‘I want to die to myself, and I want to be crucified with Christ. But I know that as soon as…

In his book, Leading Without Power, Max De Pree writes, “I’ve often noticed the manager of a professional sports team or a member of Congress or a pastor using the phrase “my people.”Even though such an expression may rise from the best of motivations and real concern, to the ear of a follower this language…

Rob Bell spoke on the selecting process that rabbis would use to choose their disciples. At the age of six, children would begin to learn the Torah; this training was called bat-cipher. From age eight to ten, they would memorize the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. By the end of bat-cipher, most kids…

Source: Spotting the Sacred, Bruce Main, p. 90. "Adults need children in their lives to keep their imagnination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work." Margaret Mead

Rob Bell spoke on the selecting process that rabbis would use to choose their disciples. At the age of six, children would begin to learn the Torah; this training was called bat-cipher. From age eight to ten, they would memorize the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. By the end of bat-cipher, most kids…

Whatever Money Could Buy Liberace lived garishly, spending more than $2 million a year on clothes for his Las Vegas acts. He would drive on stage in a mirrored Rolls-Royce, or pop out of a giant pink egg, or soar across the stage in a swirl of purple feathers. Offstage, he dressed conservatively, but…

Clovis Chappell, a great preacher of a previous generation, used to tell the story of two paddleboat steamers. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, crew members made disparaging remarks about the slowness of the other boat. Words…

The great violinist, Nicolo Paganini, willed his marvelous violin to Genoa, Italy—the city of his birth—but only on condition that the instrument never be played upon. It was an unfortunate condition, for it is a peculiarity of wood that as long as it is used and handled, it shows little wear. As soon…

Life bankrupts those who invest in it. Tommy Nelson, A Life Well Lived, p 13

What is the difference between involvement and commitment? Perhaps I can best explain this by way of analogy with bacon and eggs. In bacon and egg, the hen is involved but the pig is committed.

A mother who was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake... Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.’” Kevin turned to…

A young girl was applying to an ivy league college with great anticipation. That is until she came to the question, “Are you a leader?” She agonized over the question for a while and finally told the truth. “No” she wrote, “I am not a leader.” She felt certain that her answer to that question would seal…

Marty Koonce is our missionary to Togo Africa, but before he accepted the call to be a missionary, he was a manager at Wal-Mart and on the rise in that company. But he felt God’s tugging to do more with his life – to take God’s good news to people across the globe. How do you give up a six figure income…

This is not a Sermon, it's more of a Biblical breakdown of Salvation supported by over 100 Bible Verses. Detailed Plan of Salvation Recognize sin and unworthyness The Commandement, God's only Commandement in the Garden of Eden Gen 2:16,17 Commandment broken, disobediance and seperation Gen 3:1-6 Gen…

John Newton CHOICE EXCERPTS I am not what I once was! In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God—I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: "I am not what I ought to be—ah, how…