One Life – The Key to Contentment

The key to contentment is found in accepting a few fundamental truths about God and life; First, God is and God is Love and loves me with a perfect and unconditional love.  He is love and love always wants what is best for me and so I will always have all that I need to do what is best. His Son’s death in my place to take the punishment that I deserve establishes the value He has placed on me.  ...

One Life – Contentment – Pipedream or Choice?

There are some, count me as one of them, who believe  that genuine contentment is the true “pearl of great price” of this life, a prize so rare as to almost never be seen or experienced. Based on every survey, world-wide, contentment doesn’t exist. Our modern culture is fueled by discontent, by the futile hope that we need something on the outside of us to be added or change before we can say “enough!”  and be happy. How about you? Are you content? How much stress in your life would evaporate if contentment replaced striving for “just a little more stuff” in your life? Like almost all of it? That would certainly be true of most others that I know. Contentment is just a dream to most, a far off, out there somewhere thing, that supposedly...

One Life – Christian Leaders Stand UP!

This is a word to Christian leaders, particularly for leaders of leaders. These are tumultuous times. Things are being shaken that have never been shaken and there is a spirit of fatigue and even fear loose in our land and in the Church. There is no longer any security in things that had been thought to be secure and as I travel and speak to believers across the country I hear a cry for relief and a return for “the way things were.” My brothers and sisters we are in danger of missing the point. These circumstances are no surprise to God and He’s not going to give us a quick-fix return to prosperity and an ever-upward always improving life. In fact we grieve Him when we fail to realize that we have in fact been born for” just such a time as this.”  God planned for you and I to...

One Life – Ethics? Where Do They Come From?

Most people consider themselves to be ethical. Do you? If not please click out now, but if you do consider yourself an ethical person, let me ask you “Where do your ethics come from?” There are really only four possible answers and three of them are demonstratably unworkable. For instance, an answer you might give would be whatever the majority in a culture or nation believes to be ethical is ethical. Of course this answer only works if you agree with the majority. If the majority should vote and consider the murder of your ethnic group to be morally and ethically acceptable it would no longer be a viable answer. An  alternative would be that an “enlightened” minority could force their definition of ethical behavior on the majority as in Russia, China, and is...