Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Isaiah 58:12 reads, “You’ll use the old rubble…to…rebuild the foundations.”   Lie number two: God won’t use you now.   Julie Ann Barnhill continues: “Women long to have their lives count for something more eternal than their...
Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. II)

Proverbs 28:13 reads, “You can’t whitewash your sins and get by.”   Julie Ann Barnhill continues: “The father of lies (John 8:44) wants us to believe there are things we’ve done that can make God’s love for us end. And on occasion...
Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Confessions of a Secret Sinner

Luke 12:2 reads, You can’t hide behind a religious mask…sooner or later the mask will slip.”   Inspirational speaker and author Julie Ann Bamhill writes: “I tend to be a stealthy sinner—a cloistered screw-up. Most of my life I’ve managed...
Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Nurture Your Children

Ephesians 6:4 reads, “Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”   We keep being shocked by stories of children killing teachers and other children in school, and then turning the gun on themselves. Two boys, aged twelve and thirteen, beat a...
Confessions of a Secret Sinner (Pt. III)

Why Go to Church?

Ephesians 5:25 reads, “Christ loved the church.”   The story’s told of a mother who woke her son one Sunday morning and said, “Get up-you’re late for church!” He replied, “I don’t want to go. I’ve no friends there,...