At the risk of over working a worn out phrase, how are you doing at "keeping it real" during this time of year. I'm not sure what that meant or means but one thing is for sure, real is the only way to go. What would life look like if it was being lived in an unreal way. Well, lets let our imaginations run wild. An unreal life might include too much time fighting for parking spaces at the mall or stressing over pleasing everyone on your Christmas list. Living unreal probably includes spending so much money during the holidays...

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Well, the future is always ahead of us, or is it. It is an old saying that those who live in the past have no future. The same can be said of a church. The past is a nice place to visit but it is a terrible place to live. In fact to live there invites the numbing effect of the death of the familiar. Whether the past was a grand thing or a series of miserable failures both will paralize you to the possibilities of the what God wants to do. When Joshua took over God clearly declared to him that Moses...

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Well, I suppose you live long enough and you might just see it all. I saw my first tornado a few days ago and it was spectacular. I appreciate the words of Mark Spain of Fox 30 News as he described the tornado as it touched down on the St Johns River. He said it looked as though the finger of God had reach down to touch the city. As God dragged His finger down the river it reminded me of the majesty and power of the Almighty. Surely He loves us. But it is not the tornado that speaks the...

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 I was recently digging in a pile of dirt when I came across a toad. He had been buried under at least four feet of sand for several days. Assuming he was dead, I picked MR. Toad up for a look see. To my shock and dismay he peeked his eye open and began to move his little webbed feet. Amazing!! How could he have survived being buried that long. Life at the bottom of the pile. In 2 Corinthians 4:7 we are told that we possess the treasure of Christ within our earthen vessels. Life in the midst of...

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 Well she's finally here. Our long awaited granddaughter, Lorelai Sara Bryan has arrived. There are moments that life seems to stand still and the arrival of a baby is one of them. A new life seems to remind us all that God an amazing Creator. Even as we see this world quickly falling apart God reminds us all through a new born that what He has created, will live forever. The great question is not how shall we save this world but how shall we prepare for the next. This world is doomed for destruction but Christ died to redeem us...

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