Christmas is a time you can build your family culture: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, says Joshua in Joshua 24:15.

Are you spending, wasting, or investing your life? Are you having the maximum impact on the maximum number of people for all of eternity? Answering these huge, sobering questions with integrity requires solitude, introspection, prayer, and sobriety.

Gather your courage and immerse yourself into these passages. How will you adjust or refine your life’s direction as a result of digesting what follows?

"Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.”

Choose the right guides in life. Here's how...

If the trajectory of our country is going to change, it must begin with our hearts. We must first steward our own hearts and the hearts of our families before speaking about changing the direction of our country. May God use the following thoughts to aid in crafting a special, constructive day centered in our love for Jesus. Let us give thanks for all He has done for us!

You can't expect someone who rejects the author of Scripture to accept the precepts of His book. The greatest need—new life in Christ!

Contemplate the sobriety of King Solomon and what he has to say about a sense of normal living — one that garners blessing, spiritual, mental and physical health, and meaningful relationships.

Only when there is a cost to our faith—when God allows us to be tested—do we learn our true level of spiritual maturity, our level of faithfulness.

Before we step into the voting booth, let's consider the Book of Proverbs—specifically Solomon's advice to his son, Rehaboam.

How do you respond to tribulation in your personal life? Does Scripture inform your mind and emotions when you are faced with seeming setbacks? Is your mind permeated with Scripture so as to be able to combat the fleshly responses of our inner person?

This week I would like to explore one particular passage in the book of Ephesians that can greatly aid you when you are faced with trials and tribulation.

Herein are the explicit details related to your assurance that you are at peace with God. The book of Romans provides a precise, progressive outline of God’s plumb line relative as to how a person is saved. Once digested, they are also profoundly illuminating! The writer of Hebrews put it this way: so great a salvation! (2:3).