Pathways Church | Messages

“What if you knew for sure that you had limited time? How would live out that time? What things would you do? What would matter enough to focus on and what would suddenly become unimportant? What would consume that time and what would be discarded?

“What if you knew for sure that you had limited time? How would live out that time? What things would you do? What would matter enough to focus on and what would suddenly become unimportant? What would consume that time and what would be discarded?

If there is one emotion that I can't stand, it's probably frustration. I hate the feeling of being frustrated, knowing things could be so much better than they are, but nothing seems to be going in the right direction. If you turn on the news, it's easy to quickly become frustrated with the evenings headlines. So the question is, how should we be dealing with frustration when it appears in our lives and what are our frustrations telling us?

In our world today, it is easy not to care isn't it? In fact, this has even become a joke in our society, almost to the point that we celebrate our lack of caring. God created us for so much more than to slip through life in an apathetic fashion.

This week we're going to take a look at Prisons. Naturally, your mind likely went to being locked in a physical prisons, but more than those, I want to talk about the prisons we put ourselves into.

Once again we stop to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy in the United States. But as we celebrate we must also take time to stop and take an honest look at what is taking place in our country.

Have you ever met those people, the ones who seem to rehash the past forever? The ones who seem to live in their memories more than in the present? The ones who can’t seem to get past some issue, some hang-up, some roadblock in their past? As if they are still chained to something years ago.

The Bible has a lot to say about money, wealth, greed, contentment and a variety of other topics as they pertain to our financial and spiritual lives. Yet churches are often unwilling to talk about the subject because people are funny about money. Yet at the same time most of us are drowning in credit card debt, reaching $423.8 billion in early 2019, according to NerdWallet’s annual analysis of U.S. household debt. That’s an increase of almost 5% over last year! I want you to listen to what the Bible has to say about Money, as its not about prosperity and getting rich, and it's certainly doesn't say you have to live in poverty as well. My goal is not to guilt anyone or get something for you, but to see you find God's best in your life and finances.

I almost died! While visiting family in Florida, I found myself in an unexpected situation, in which my life was literally in Jeopardy. This situation got me thinking about the choices that we all make. Too many of us have made decisions based upon what we think is a good idea, only to find out everything is on the line.

There are a lot of verses that have conflicts in fighting, WHY? Just because God thought He needed some gratuitous violence in His book. I don’t think that’s what that’s about. It’s in there because he knew you and I would be in a fight one day. He knew you and I would have to know how to spiritually fight.