To serve or be served! It is the essence of living. I guess one could be both in different areas of one’s life, but I tend to believe that it’s either one way or the other, overall. This is what all mankind must decide between. It shapes our days, impacts our joy or lack thereof. It […]
Dr. Jeffery Parker, Pastor of the House of Prayer Word Outreach in Dallas, Texas, was born September 7, 1963, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was educated in the Caddo Parrish School District and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1981. Upon graduation, Pastor Parker entered the armed forces and received an honorable discharge from […]
Spiritual leader Dads, my friend Lee Colan has written a wonderful message. He gave me permission to reproduce it for our Life Today series. While it is directed primarily to the business world, I want you to read this from the standpoint of you as a spiritual leader of your home. Certainly, you can apply […]
In his encouraging and challenging speech at the Abiding Fathers Legacy Luncheon 2020, Lt. Col. Allen B. West (Ret.) discusses why America needs godly dads who are connected to the vine and who make sure their kids are also connected and growing. Dads who are building not only a spiritual foundation but all the other […]
Lead Since summer break has started, I have noticed numerous families together at church, in the grocery, eating at restaurants, walking down the street, or bicycling. It has been encouraging to see most of these are being led by a father who appears to be quite engaged. Many are leading their children by the hand […]
A patriarch Have you ever stopped to really consider this statement, and its implications? House here implies those individuals in Joshua’s family, even his extended family. The people of Israel were at a crossroads and Joshua was at the end of his long and victorious life. He is challenging them as they move forward without […]
The last days We are in what is spoken of in scripture as the ’latter days’ or the ‘last days’. This is the period before Christ’s return. Satan and the Antichrist will be extremely active seeking to blind people from truth, even the Church. Paul, in his second letter to Timothy, warns of this. He […]
Fiddle on fire While growing up in the South, I saw and heard some fiddling that would so to speak ‘burn the house down’. It was that good. Sometimes you thought you could see smoke coming off the strings. Charlie Daniels was one of the best on Orange Blossom Special. Women got into it big time […]
Testimony of Truth Tell them what? Joel was encouraging parents to inform the next generations of all the many things, dreadful things, that their forefathers had been asked to witness and endure. And how God, as their Savior, had exhorted them to repent. Sound familiar today? This verse indicates the hearer will impact three generations. […]
The church is more than a building Define the Church…in five words or less. Good job! In the West, we think of the various denominations and all of the different building architectures. You can somehow pick them out by their design. For many, it is hard to move past the building defining the church. We […]