"Though He slay me, I will trust Him" Job. I'm sure you are familiar with Job's story...maybe a bit too familiar. All of us have had “Job” like experiences in our journey. He lost everything that he cherished: family, lands, riches, friends, health-o

The Platform

By: Alan Smith

Can we really live a life that is full of joy and excitement, with great anticipation of events that are right around the corner?  Life is not to be endured, but enjoyed.  The Bible is full of truths that are unbelievabl

Reconciliation in the ICU

This is a very recent and true story from a dear friend…

My dad had a brain aneurysm a few days ago, and here is an update. They think it was a vein and not an artery, but haven't confirmed that yet.  They are doing another an

Something that Surpasses Knowledge

By: Alan Smith

Eph 3:17-19

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know t

   Perhaps some of you have been in a season of change and realignment, praying and waiting seeking direction as to what to do next?  God has taken you through a wilderness experience to find Him to get your battle wounds healed and become strengthen

Just Do It

By: Alan Smith

Nike thought they originated the phrase “Do It”; but the Bible beat them to it.

1 Chron. 28:20: "And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God,

"When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." 1 Corinthians 13:11 N.I.V.

There is a huge difference between living in child-like simplicity and child

Do you realize how many uses there are for "corn"? Are you sitting down? Corn has over five hundred uses and still counting. Thanks to the "inventive" George Washington Carver, the peanut has over three hundred life enhancing uses. This blows my mind

When a man worships
He shakes the foundations of bricked hopelessness
And bridges the gap of generational schisms

 
When a man worships
The heavens bend receiving the
Surrender of its son called to go proxy
For the life of its seed

 
When a man worships
Unabas

It’s not about you and me. How we feel. It’s about Jesus. It’s about losing ourselves in God. It’s about forgetting who we were and awaking to a brand new world in the Kingdom of God. It’s about the glory of God and being drowned in His great mercy a

Alan, heard you had a teaching of this in another message? About perception. Dave Dauler

Picture this: The stage is set; the game is on! You are more than a mere spectator who is detached from the action and watching from the seeming safety of the grand-stands. You are standing on the field; in the readied position, opposite each other i

But you have been anointed by [you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from] the Holy One, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things. I John 2:20

But as for you, the anointing (

Road-tested-Inside and Out

Nurtured by Practicing Love

Practice is the only way to improve at anything. The word “practice” means “learning by repetition“. What you prioritize and practice; with repetitive action, will be mastered in time. If we take an honest, soul searching p