A little boy crafted a small wooden boat and gently placed it in the neighborhood pond. After a few minutes he asked his dad (with confusion in his voice), “Daddy, why isn’t my sailboat sailing?” The father tenderly replied, “Well, son, it’s because your sailboat doesn’t have a sail.” How many of us are trying to go through life like a sailboat…

When police arrive on the scene of an accident where there is a small pool of blood remaining behind from one of the victims, do you know what the police can tell about the person from that blood? Besides the fact that a person has been injured to cause them to bleed, there is nothing about that blood (by looking at it)…

Perhaps you have seen the memes that poke fun, “They had one job…but failed.” There’s the picture of a coffee cup with the handle on the inside of the cup. There’s the Fire Zone painted on the blacktop in front of a supermarket that is spelled “FRIE.” There’s the “Back to School” display at a big-box store with racks full of chef’s…

Has someone ever asked you to do something that you really didn’t want to do, or they asked you to help when it really wasn’t convenient? When you went ahead and helped anyway, did you let them know (even if just in a subtle way) that you were doing them a favor and messing up your  schedule to assist them, so that…

Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied with where you are in life? Are you satisfied with your relationship with God? And, if you are satisfied, is that good thing? Or is that a bag thing? Be careful  how you answer. Proverbs 14:14 states, “The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways.” What does that mean? A heart that is…

Do you have some clothes that…well…just don’t fit like they once did? Sometimes clothes just don’t fit right anymore. Have you ever borrowed someone else’s shoes and realized how very different feet are? Sometimes certain clothes fit other people better than they fit us. There is a piece of “clothing” that God tells every Christian, with urgency, to put on. It is…

You’ve heard of “unanswered prayers,” right? The idea is: (1) “I asked God for this.” (2) “I didn’t get it.” (3) “It’s an unanswered prayer.” Of course, such an approach severely limits God to only see, desire and give us what we want. An answer of “Yes,” then, is the only acceptable response for some, but we must realize that God sometimes…

Near the end of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” when Frodo Baggins had nearly completed his task of carrying the One Ring into Mordor, he collapsed from sheer exhaustion. He could not go on. His friend, Samwise “Sam” Gamgee, tried to urge him to finish the journey, but Frodo seemed to have lost the strength to reach…