Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4:6 I took flying lessons in high school, and I loved it. I had amassed almost all the hours I was required to have with an instructor, and I had begun working on piling up my solo flight hours. But then came high school graduation day and that meant I was moving on to college. If you have any idea how

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13 Most of the inspiring sports stories we hear today go something like this: “Against seemingly insurmountable odds, the athlete persevered and won an astounding victory.” Whether it was their poor upbringing, a nagging sickness or injury they were forced to endure, or just a lack of natural skills they had to compensate for, many amazing athletes have shown that when a person sets his min

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. Philippians 3:10 Before I became a pastor, I used to teach high school classes. It always made me laugh when I would hear one of the guys in the high school referring to a professional sports team (usually basketball) as “we.” He’d come into school and say, “Yeah, it was really close, but ‘we’ won last night.” I always say, “Rea

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4:6 I have two boys and a girl, who as of this writing, are all still pretty young. Not once has any of them come to me and asked, “Daddy, where are we going to get the money to pay the next house payment?” They have never asked me if we were going to have the money to put gas in the car to go

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. Philippians 3:13 I do a lot of running. I have run several marathons, several half-marathons, and countless other shorter races. I don’t have a running partner to practice with, so I run against myself. It is almost