I just returned from a two week trip to Les Cayes, Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and rightly so. It has so many problems: economical collapse, governmental corruption, poor health conditions, very bad roads, little electricity, no real sewers, huge trash dilemma, contaminated drinking water and very high unemployment. Where [...]
Throughout any given day, people have many opportunities to make decisions. Some of them are well planned out and others are spontaneous and instant. Unfortunately, many people make important decisions too quickly and live with the negative consequences when they could have waited a bit longer, gained a few more facts or listened to some [...]
Have you ever been frustrated because God was not moving on your behalf the way you thought He should or in the time frame you had planned? If we are honest with ourselves, most of us have been there a time or two. Read Cory Nickols latest Good News article: His Ways Are Not Our Ways and [...]
Have you ever been frustrated because God was not moving on your behalf the way you thought He should or in the time frame you had planned? If we are honest with ourselves, most of us have been there a time or two. Read Cory Nickols latest Good News article: His Ways Are Not Our [...]
For much of my life, I served my own needs and cared only about me! I was selfish to the core and honestly, I did not even know it. In other words, I was blind to my own sinful condition. One day in my early twenties, I was seeking God and I remember thinking in [...]
Have you ever been in a situation so long, you became ungrateful? You no longer saw the good in your circumstances, but perceived it from a negative vantage point? If you have, you are not alone. The Israelites did the same thing when they left the land of Egypt. They had been enslaved for 400 [...]
Have you ever compared your life with someone else’s? Maybe you were going through a rough season and your best friend seemed to have everything going for him. Or maybe God was asking you to do something that He was not asking others to do, and you asked God, “Why don’t they have to do [...]
Have you ever been labeled a certain way because of your past mistakes or poor choices you made? Maybe you have gone through a marriage that didn’t workout the way you thought it should and it ended in divorce and people labeled you as “Divorced:. Or maybe you had premarital sex and you were known [...]
I had the amazing privilege of worshiping God with thousands of other people at a Christian worship concert this past week. It was truly an amazing experience listening to everyone’s voices and watching people raise their hands to the Living God. It is so amazing that we can worship God with an outward expression. However, [...]
Have you ever struggled with self-image problems? Maybe you have an insecurity with your voice, or the way you look. Maybe you don’t like how thin your hair is, the color of your eyes or your dominant personality isn’t quite like your best friend’s mild soft spoken demeanor. Most of us, if we are honest [...]