In the letters of Peter, we find no mere spiritual suggestions but divine truths, warnings, and commands meant to give hope. He writes not to a loose collection of spiritually minded individuals but to "a royal priesthood, a holy nation" (1 Peter 2:9), a living temple...
Common Cents Part Four: Giving It All To God
CONTRIBUTORS Larry and Linda: Owners of a successful private dental practice turned career missionaries in West Africa and then Papua New Guinea. Currently reside in Owings Mills nearby to their grandchildren and daughter Kristen, who is the Nursery Coordinator here...
Kids Experience January 31
Use your words wisley.WORDS. Our words have a LOT of power—maybe more than we even realize. That’s why Paul thought it was so important for us to use words that build each other up and help us heal. We have the responsibility to choose words that will help the people...
Giving Matters
Money can activate either greed or generosity within us. When God urges us to share our financial resources for the good of others, He doesn’t do so by appealing to guilt or obligation. God tells us that we can invest in things that really matter by sharing the money...
Dormant
Dormant Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings;he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep...
Common Cents Part Three: Managing Dollars with Sense
CONTRIBUTORS Rob and Cora: A couple whose debt nearly caused the demise of their marriage before discovering Dave Ramsey’s program. They’ve dedicated themselves as teachers of Ramsey’s Financial Peace University (FPU) and head up this ministry at LifePoint. Dave and...
Kids Experience January 24
Make the most of what you've been given.When Jesus told the story we will hear this week, everyone listening would have known exactly what He meant. The message was clear: those who are responsible with what they’ve been given will be trusted and given more. But...
Contentment Matters
Everywhere we look, we are confronted with messages telling us about the things we need to be happy and whole. If only we can get, the better phone, go on the better vacation, drive the better car, get into the better college, then we will be content. We will be...
Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.Psalm 95:3-4 ately, I’ve been angry. As someone who doesn’t experience that emotion often,...
Debt Matters
We are created to crave. We all want something. And we all realize that there’s something lacking in our lives, so we always want more. More food, more time, more money, more stuff. But with all of our desire for more, our ability to get more is always limited. So we...
Common Cents Part Two: Delivered from Debt
CONTRIBUTORS Rich and Stephanie: A financially comfortable couple who decided to get serious about overcoming their debt and changing their spending habits as their children approached college age. . Rob and Cora: A couple whose debt nearly caused the demise of their...
Kids Experience January 17
We can work hard. This week we hear some wise advice from Solomon (see Proverbs 6:6-8). We can do our best at whatever we are doing. We can work hard. Hard work is one way we can show love to God—and to the people He made. This week we hear about a Rule for Life...
Tethered
Tethered The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill, though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord. ...
Common Cents Part One: Finances and Faith
CONTRIBUTORS Rob and Cora: A couple whose debt nearly caused the demise of their marriage before discovering Dave Ramsey’s program. They’ve dedicated themselves as teachers of Ramsey’s Financial Peace University (FPU) and head up this ministry at LifePoint. Abang and...
Kids Experience January 10
Share what you have.This week Jesus’ story gives US a great Rule for Life. We can choose to be generous with the things we have. We can share ANYTHING God has given us—like our time, our talents, our money, or the things we own. We have a responsibility to share what...
Money Matters
Money is strange. You need it to live, yet it can squeeze the life right out of you. We shouldn’t find it surprising that God has a lot to say about money and our possessions. Far from being an off-limits conversation even in the church, your view of money reveals...
Two Is One
Two Is One [The ant] stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:8 here’s an old survivalist motto that my husband is fond of using (typically when I ask if three cartons of milk in our weekly online grocery order...
Celebrate Recovery January 7
There's a story in Daniel, chapter 3, about three young boys, Sadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo, who are thrown into a fiery furnace for daring to honor God by not bowing to a golden image. But there was another in that fire with them. Many believe it was God Himself,...
Kids Experience January 3
Love God by loving others.Happy New Year! This month we will hear some important “Rules of the Game” straight from God’s Word. This week we will hear that as followers of Jesus, we have a responsibility to love God by loving others. That’s what Jesus said is the...
This is the Way
The words “fear of the Lord” appear over one hundred times in the Bible. But throughout scripture, God also tells his people not to fear. Is God contradicting Himself, or could the fear of the Lord mean something completely different than fear? As we discuss the...
Focusing Our Gaze in the Year Ahead
Focusing Our Gaze On The Year Ahead One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. Psalms 24:7 ne of my...