Most have heard the old saying, "follow your heart." I myself have heard, said, and followed that advice in my life at times. Is it always the best road to take?

Listen as I put that age old advice to the test.

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What is Love? That is among the most asked questions. Pastor Travis looks to answer that question based on truth.

Do you like being lied to? … Of course not, nobody does.

When we’re lied to, hurt always follows. Sometimes the hurt is immediate, and at other times the hurt develops over time. The latter is what I am discussing today. 

The highest perfection which man can attain, while the soul dwells in the body, does not exclude ignorance, and error, and a thousand other infirmities. Now, from wrong judgments, wrong words and actions will often necessarily flow: And, in some cases, wrong affections also may spring from the same source. I may judge wrong of you: I may think more or less highly of you than I ought to think; and this mistake in my judgment may not only occasion something wrong in my behavior, but it may have a still deeper effect; it may occasion something wrong in my affection. From a wrong apprehension, I may love and esteem you either more or less than I ought. Nor can I be freed from a likableness to such a mistake while I remain in a corruptible body. A thousand infirmities, in consequence of this, will attend my spirit, till it returns to God who gave it. And, in numberless instances, it comes short of doing the will of God, as Adam did in paradise. Hence the best of men may say from the heart,

"Every moment, Lord, I need The merit of thy death,

for innumerable violations of the Adamic as well as the angelic law." It is well, therefore, for us, that we are not now under these, but under the law of love. "Love is" now "the fulfilling of the law," which is given to fallen man. This is now, with respect to us, "the perfect law." But even against this, through the present weakness of our understanding, we are continually liable to transgress. Therefore every man living needs the blood of atonement, or he could not stand before God.

Looking to satisfy your soul? How, and from where, does true satisfaction come?

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What do you treasure in your life?

We all experience obstacles in life and we usually have just three options on how to handle them. However, Mark 11:22-24 offers a fourth choice.

 Chances are, you’re an expert on the fact that life-is-hard… The good news however, is found right there to start out Hebrews 12:2—fix your eyes on Jesus… And why do that? 

Do you want to be blessed? Would being blessed improve your attitude? Pastor Travis discussed the "Be-attitudes" from Matthew 5:1-12 and how they can improve your attitude and how attitude can improve your life.

Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

Colossians 2:8

This passage from the Bible really speaks to me… In today’s world, many people are taken captive by "hollow and deceptive philosophy". You often hear about this with young students who attend secular universities. Many of them grow up in Christian homes, often attending church, only to give up the faith of their parents after they go off to college. From there on out, they’re getting their influences sometimes in the wrong places.