G3 "GOD GETS THE GLORY" BLOG

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

12/02/2017

Don't you love getting gifts?  Christmas... Birthday... Halloween... Easter... We love gifts!  But would they be gifts if we had to do something to earn them?  What if you grew up being told that if you were a bad kid or you did bad things, then Santa Claus wouldn't give you any gifts?  *winking*  Or what if you were told that you had to do your chores every single day without complaining or no birthday presents for you?  They wouldn't be gifts anymore, would they? Our God has given us a gift.

12/01/2017

Human beings have a need to control.  We loathe thinking that something is outside of our control.  Every facet of our lives centers around situations that we can control.  The hardest thing for us to accept is that we have no control or that something is out of our control.  But if we are to seriously look at our lives, do we really have control?  Or is it all a facade?  A "reality" that we force upon ourselves so that we can survive each day? I can remember the first real moment that I

11/30/2017

What do we pursue these days?  I look around and see some people pursue material wealth.  Some people pursue physical pleasures.  Everybody has something that they pursue.  And what they pursue tells a lot about that person.  We are all in the pursuit of something.  For me, for the majority of my life, I pursued a father figure.  My biological father left my life when I was 4.  My stepdad might as well not have been there considering how emotionally invested he was.  So I grew up without a solid

11/29/2017

Life sure can get stressful, can't it?  Jobs... Families... Friends... Bills... Chores... It can all get so overwhelming sometimes.  There are times when I don't know my left from my right or my up from my down.  *laughing*  But believe it or not, I've found a way to avoid the stresses of life.  I've found a way to remove them completely.  Well, let me rephrase that.  The stresses will always be there.  What's different for me now is I don't worry about them.   How can you possibly not worry

11/28/2017

What are you thankful for?  Many of us would say our family and our friends or perhaps we're thankful to have a job.  Some might say they are thankful for financial security.  How many of us forget about the single, most important thing of which we should be thankful?  God! If you put your life into His perspective, He is worthy of our thanks, more than anything else.  Why, you ask?  That's an easy question to answer.  Simply put, everything else is there because of Him.  The air we breathe?

11/27/2017

How many times do we long for the weekend?  How often do we look forward to those vacations so that we can rejuvenate ourselves?  After a week of hard work, most people cannot wait for 5pm on Friday so they can start their weekend and get refreshed.  What if there was a way to feel refreshed every single day?  Wouldn't it be good to know how to get that kickstart every single day instead of just waiting for Friday after work? There IS a way.  God...  God restores our spirit.  He gives us that

11/26/2017

America, a land that I love dearly and spent 14 years of my life defending, is in need of help.  If you watch the news, you'll see what I mean.  Crime, hatred, division, racism, corruption... We look a lot like Babylon of old.  We are tearing ourselves apart.  And why?  Because we have not humbled ourselves and sought Him as a nation.  Yes, there are churches throughout the country that pray for America and for our leaders.  But as a nation, we have not humbled ourselves and have not sought Him.