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Life brings with it times of trouble, hours of darkness, times when the bottom falls out, times when we are broken-hearted and looking for answers. We all need something, someone who will keep us standing strong and sustain us in these times. We need words of wisdom, guidance,... Read More →

What you believe about God affects how you deal with everything in life. If you don’t have a true understanding of what God is like, then you’re building your life on a faulty foundation. If you understood what God is really like, you would freely love and trust him, turn to him... Read More →

Having Top Gear character means having the commitment to do what is right as God defines right, regardless of the cost. Most of the time our problem isn’t knowing what is right or wrong, but rather having the will to do right. In and of ourselves we fall short, but by abiding in... Read More →

Society fuels our human inclination to satisfy our own needs. If we have a need and the ability to meet that need, then we have a right to meet that need regardless of what God says. But, when we compromise and bypass God’s will, we rob ourselves of what He wants to do in our... Read More →

Top Gear – Tear Down God gives us a new identity the moment we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior. It’s the amazing gift of salvation. We become a child of God. But often we don’t feel all that different. That is because we still have the same mind we had before. God’s renewal... Read More →

Becoming a Christian doesn’t guarantee change. Change is the result of renewal as God works in our lives. It’s a life-long process of working out our salvation by allowing God to mold and form us into people who bear the likeness and character of Jesus. Scriptures Philippians... Read More →

God has given us more than a picture of what our character should look like by giving us Jesus as the example. However, no matter how much determination and human effort we put into being like Jesus, we fall far short. In Romans, Paul writes that God wants us to be conformed to... Read More →

Character is the commitment to do what is “right” as God defines “right” regardless of the cost. We live in a world where accomplishment and achievement are prized and often held in higher regard than character. When accomplishment is top gear, a new societal ethic... Read More →

Many followers of Christ have times in their lives when they have doubts and questions they can’t answer.  This isn’t something that is new to our day.  There are whole books of the Bible that deal with the issue of doubt in various ways.  Books like Job, Psalms, Jeremiah,... Read More →