Contentment

Between my wife, my kids, and myself we have at least four different wish lists on Amazon right now. At any given time I know what I would like, I know what I “need,” and my Amazon lists reflect that. Every day of our lives we have a choice. We can be covetous or we...

How You View Your Life

I Kings 19:9 What doest thou here, Elijah? On the day of this writing, it is dreary and drizzly here in Tennessee. Some days, you are in a dreary mood and you know why. Perhaps there is gray weather outside or gray circumstances on the inside. Sometimes you don’t know...

How Do You Solve a Problem?

I Kings 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. We just finished approximately two and a half months of living on the road in an RV....

God Gives through Givers

I Kings 17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. Unlike Samuel, whose life we gradually see unfolding in the Bible, Elijah is a prophet who just bursts onto the scene. I Kings 17:1 says abruptly,...

What Are You Doing Today?

I Kings 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. I am always the last one to know when my kids are imitating me. I have found this to be true with other parents as well. Oftentimes we see behaviors or words in the lives...