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One Good Thing (#148): Taking inventory

 Remembering what you have is always valuable.  

One Good Thing (#147): Be the Innkeeper

 A different look at the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10)  

Close Counts

 No matter how discouraged, confused, or defeated you feel, this one answer will help. It has many times before.  

One Good Thing (#146): Influence Starts Here (Romans 12:9-end)

 You can take all sorts of leadership classes and try a thousand techniques, but you will never really influence someone unless you do this first.  

One Good Thing (#145): Not Everyone Gets a Vote!

 The title of this lesson is a little clunky, but the truth is contains is indispensable! We will be in turmoil until we learn this one lesson.  

The Start is the Hardest Part

                   Bertha Benz was losing patience with her husband Karl.   He had built his first horseless carriage in December of 1885, but, although all their money was tied up in the car, Karl refused to offer it for sale.   Instead, he tinkered with various components trying to improve his design.   By August of 1888, Bertha decided that she had waited long enough.                 Without telling Karl, she and her two sons went out to the garage, started the car, and proceeded to drive it from their home in Mannheim, Germany to her parent’s house in Pforzheim, 106 kilometres away.   This marked the first time that any car had gone more than a few miles from home and Bertha made sure that...

When Sadness Comes to Church (Psalm 6)

 You don't need to feel happy all the time to come to worship. In Psalm 6, David shows us how to approach God even when things are less than perfect.