Luke 9: 23 – 24 – Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” Wikipedia says […]

Philippians 3:17-19 – Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is […]

“Maybe there’s a God above But all I’ve ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you And it’s not a cry that you hear at night It’s not someone who’s seen the light It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah” These lyrics appear in Leonard Cohen’s beautiful and haunting […]

  In a word, the answer to this question is “No”. That said, one of the first arguments that unbelievers (and often seekers) make when they question our faith as followers of Jesus is, “if God is all-powerful and completely good, how can He allow children to die, disease and poverty, or evil to prevail […]

Jesus words in red in the Gospel of Matthew tell us “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”  When our Lord Jesus tells us something this […]

It is March 2020. March, they say, goes in like a Lion and leaves like a lamb. Jesus is both the Lion of Judah and the Lamb slain for us. True to his twisted nature, satan shows the reverse. Right behind the movement of the Spirit and revival of faith within the Body of Christ […]

Yesterday, on the first day of the first year of this new decade Abundant Life Church saw tangible evidence of the miraculous power of God moving in our midst through the prayers of the saints! We are going to see much more of this in the days to come… Here is what happened… A Paralympic […]

When I was in the world, before giving my life to Christ, I would let the circumstances of any troubling situation drive my direction and decisions.  It was my human nature, based in my PHYSICAL reality, that caused me to REACT to whatever was going on around me.  Call it fight or flight.  When good […]

Today, I had a mentoring session with a long-time Christian brother who only recently gave his whole life to the Lord and has begun to take up his cross daily and follow Him.  I am always joyful when a person who identifies as Christian but is seeking true relationship with God, comes into Abundant Life […]

“Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good […]