G3 "GOD GETS THE GLORY" BLOG

01/25/2018

To whom do we look for affirmation?  Where do we go for confirmation that we're doing what we're supposed to do?  That varies depending on the person.  For me, growing up, I looked to my parents.  In school, we look to our teachers for that confirmation.  In college, our professors gave us that insight and guided us.  Then we went out into the big, bad world.  Then we looked to our bosses and our spouses.  For those of us who have served in the military, we looked to our squad leaders, our

01/24/2018

The entire Law can be summed up in this one command:  "Love your neighbor as yourself."  The single, most predominant theme through all 66 books of the Bible is love.  I've talked about this in several of my blog posts thus far.  And it overjoys me to keep coming back to it!   Love... What is it?  Dictionary.com has 28 different definitions for it.  But I have a slightly different definition.  Here's my definition... "Love is patient.  Love is kind.  It does not envy.  It does not boast.  It is

01/22/2018

Have you ever walked around your house in the dark?  It's not easy.  Especially if you've just recently moved in.  Eventually, you get accustomed to where everything is so you can do it more easily, but there's still an uncertainty there.  I found myself questioning whether my stuff was where I thought it was.  I reach out blindly with my hands, feeling around, hoping that I don't stub my toe on a piece of furniture. Isn't that how we live our lives though?  We blindly stumble through it,

01/21/2018

You know, financially, I've struggled through much of my adult life.  But there is one thing that I have learned.  No matter how bad things got financially, when I tithed, when I gave money back to the Lord, my finances seemed to always work themselves out.  When I didn't tithe, that's when things seemed to fall apart.  I know it sounds crazy, but it's true.   It can be difficult too.  You look at your finances and you know that you don't have enough to tithe.  But God wants us to take that

01/20/2018

You know, our society today is pushing learning multiple languages.  You get more money in your job if you're bilingual.  You're more marketable if you can speak Spanish or Chinese or whatever language.  When I went to college, I planned on going to law school afterwards.  So what language did I choose?  Latin.  Many legal terms are Latin so I thought, "Why not?"  And I fell in love with it!  Then I added classical Greek as well. Did you know that James Garfield could write in Latin with one

01/18/2018

I was 19 years old.  I was a regular member of a church in town.  And due to what I perceived as hypocrisy in the church, I walked away from God.  I took the actions of the church and equated them to Him.  In my mind, if these "Christians" acted this way, then their God can't be much better so why would I want to be a part of that?  For the next 9 years, I wandered through my wilderness.  I lived.  I loved.  I lost.   Then I gave my life back to the Lord.  It's the single most important day of

12/22/2017

John 3:16... One of the most well-known verses in all of the Bible.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."  But not many people know the follow-up verse.  "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save it."   Think about that for a second.  God didn't send Jesus to condemn us but to save us.  God WANTS us by His side in heaven.  He LONGS for His children to be

12/21/2017

Okay, I want you to think about something.  You are given an unthinkable choice.  Your son or a complete stranger.  One has to die.  Whom do you choose?  This stranger has done nothing for you.  Your son, however... I mean, come on.  He's your son.  Would you let him die for someone you don't know? God did.  Okay.  Slightly different because God does know you and me.  He created us.  But He still let His Son, Jesus Christ, come down to earth, born of a virgin, live for approximately 33 years,

12/09/2017

Life sure can suck sometimes, can't it?  I mean, we are inundated with so much stuff.  We can look back over our lives and relive all of the struggles and hardships and pain.  Sometimes things seem so dark and bleak that we wonder if we'll even survive.  I go back over my life and can vividly recall each of those times. But there is a light at the end of that tunnel.  There is a silver lining to every cloud.  Romans 5:3-5 assures us that "we can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and

12/06/2017

Do you cuss?  Do you take the Lord's name in vain?  You ever swear?  Sure!  We all have!  Did you know that the words that you say can be a sin against God?  The obvious ones are cuss words.  But what about other things?  What about criticism?  If not done the right way, it's a sin.  Mocking?  Sin.  Sarcasm?  Same as criticism.  If not done the right way, it's a sin.   Proverbs 15:4 tells us that a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.  Do you want to