Excerpt taken from The Effective Edge by Gregory Alan Tidwell.

With the start of the New Year and the setting of goals and resolutions, this excerpt seemed very appropriate and timely.

“The need for a holistic understanding shows through in our approach to planning. Some passages of Scripture, in isolation, make it sound evil and arrogant to plan. Consider, for example, the words of Christ in Matthew 6: 25-34: (Space did not permit typing out the passage.)

Excerpt taken from The Effective Edge by Gregory Alan Tidwell.

Peter described those who willfully disregard the beginning and the end: “For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished, But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgement and destruction of the unglodly” (2 Peter 3: 5-7).

By Mike Riley

It should thrill our soul to join with the children of God in singing His praises! (Revelation 19:1,4-6). We see, however, so many who claim to be Christians who are living contrary to the words of the songs we offer before our heavenly Father in praise. Do we really mean what we sing? Let’s consider the following list of songs and the footnotes after them:

By Mike Riley

When we look at the Old Testament, it’s interesting to note that David and the other writers, somehow managed to make God the center of their lives so that everything was related to God. To them, worship was the central activity in their life, not just something to “get through” until secular activities could be resumed.