There is a melody throughout the Bible. Its song is soft and sweet. It is the consistent rhythm of God’s Providence. Once you begin to hear it, it becomes easier to recognize its sweet sound throughout the pages of the Bible as well as in the experiences of your own...

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. For He has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:4-5 In all the marriage counseling I do, Money issues are probably the second leading cause of marital strife, other...

“He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.” Colossians 2:15 Are you a Christian who often feels defeated? One of Satan’s choice weapons is discouragement and he will stop at nothing to hinder and deflate the...

You can be confident that God wants you to have a successful marriage. Scripture has a great deal to say to men on how to lead and how to love you, but it also has a great deal to say to you about the way you should view and treat your husband. The problem is that...

When I do marriage counseling, It is not uncommon for a spouse to ask me privately, “Do you think there is hope for my marriage?” Do you know the answer I always give? It is a resounding YES! It isn’t a fake or shallow yes, but a confident yes because I have seen God...

One of the greatest joys I have as a pastor is having a front row seat to God’s ability to restore marriages. For the last couple of years, I have conducted numerous counseling sessions with the lion’s share of those sessions dealing with marriage and divorce. I am...

“Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits – Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.” Psalm 103:2-3 As many of you know, I am in a fight to save my eye sight. I began aggressively losing vision in my left eye. I had a surgery to correct...

This Sunday is an unusual day for PCC. We are teaching on healing and plan to pray for people suffering from sicknesses. You wouldn’t think that is unusual would you? It wasn’t for the early church. It would have been a typical day for them. Why is it strange for PCC...

It’s a frustrating feeling when you know you should be thankful for all that God has done for you, but you don’t feel satisfied. You recognize God has given you a family, an income and even health. While you have all of these to enjoy, there still seems to be...

There are some people who have been hurt by God. When they pray, they feel slighted by the Almighty. They know God could have intervened. They have heard of God’s sovereignty, so if God is truly all powerful and if He is in fact all loving, then why did He not step in...

Every day we are sowing seeds that will later produce a harvest in our lives. Whether the harvest is good and helpful determines the type of seeds we are sowing. According to Paul in Galatians 6, we can sow seeds of the flesh that reap corruption or we can sow seeds...

Kindness can have some big benefit to our lives and while the idea of kindness may seem simple, the Biblical truth of kindness is deep and meaningnful. While it should be easy to give kindness to others, but it often isn’t, especially to those who we should love the...

Is there anything more frustrating than waiting on God? If you are a person of prayer, then you probably know what it is to have to wait on the Lord. So why does it please the Lord to direct us to wait at certain times and in certain situations? It was the famous...

I am used to going 100 miles per hour it seems. Is that not our culture? I am sure you have a hard time slowing down as well. The Lord is teaching me some valuable lessons this Summer after suffering two failed eye surgeries. It seems I just cannot work as hard and as...

What am I to do with the faith the Lord has given me? He has given me a measure as well as you, so what do we do with such a gift? Jesus taught that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, that alone can move mountains, so what are we to do as our faith...

Romans 4 causes my faith to soar as Paul uses beautiful and vivid language to describe the faith of Abraham. For me, the best part of Paul’s description of Abraham’s amazing faith is that the Bible invites us to experience the same kind of faith in our own lives. As...

“Let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled. For God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” Hebrews 13:4 These are piercing words for our culture. This Scripture reminds me that I don’t have to be a product of my society....

“I opened to my beloved, by my beloved had turned and gone.” Song of Solomon 5:6 In Song of Solomon 5, a tragedy of mistiming happens in a relationship. I have seen the story of Song of Solomon play out many times in my counseling office. I do not believe I have ever...

I pray and counsel with people on a daily basis. Just this week, I am walking down hard paths with many families facing difficult circumstances. Cancer, job loss, addiction, and divorce are just a few of life’s hurts I am watching people face...people I love and...

“But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, And the lifter of my head.” Psalms 3:3 David wrote this beautiful Psalm during one of the darkest seasons of his life. It is a prayer for God to deliver him from his many enemies. If you know much about David’s...