

Focus on Marriage
In the spirit of every jewelry store’s favorite day, Valentine’s Day - this month’s letter of encouragement is on marriage. My hope and prayer is that there will be some new takeaway to encourage, heal or strengthen your marriage. Marriage was created by God. In Genesis, we read that after God had created the world and the first humans – Adam and Eve… he states “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”


The Truth of Our Focus
As I attended Men's Group and Systematic Theology the other week, I was blessed by the range in age of folks attending the study. As we look at the second installment of "focus", let us reflect on truth. In each of the groups, what is the focus or "attraction" for why we are all there? Are we there because it is the new fad? Are we there wishing to be hyped up by some charismatic teacher? Selfish gain? I believe that given the random chaos in our world today, all are attendin


Consider Your "Focus"
Recently a brother in Christ asked me to consider my "focus", and what that entails. Well I looked up focus in the dictionary for the sake of it. The Webster says as a noun: a center of activity, attraction, or attention; a point of concentration; direction; a state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding. As a verb: to cause to be concentrated; to concentrate attention or effort; converge. Moving forward, each month Linda and I will present words of encoura