Pathway of Purpose

We have just entered the second month of the year, February. February is known for the topics of love, marriage, and family. As I sit and write this post tonight, I am taken back by so many families that I know who are walking through some kind of difficulty. A son who was quickly called away to help his father who is up in age and not able to take care of himself any more. A marriage that seems to be falling apart at the seams and thinking there is no future. Family members who have received bad news from their doctor or even walking through yet again another diagnosis.  Whatever the circumstance is, I want to lift you and your family up with some encouragement today. Below is a list of ten things that can help you and your family when walking through the good and the bad. You may read the list below and see that you are doing good in some areas and in others not so good. Know that it is ok. You are not a bad person. Just pick up where you and start the journey again. This not a c...

  Have you stopped and thought about the meaning of fasting? I am sure that we all have “unfortunately, fasting is the most misunderstood spiritual discipline”  in the Christian faith. In Scot McKnight’s book, Fasting, he looks at the many facets of fasting but always brings it back to three important things: sacred moment, which leads to fasting, with the end being the results. In this book review we will be looking the strengths, weaknesses and how fasting is to be implemented into the everyday pastor and churches life.  Every fast that was seen in the Older Testaments was a response to a sacred moment. When fasting was requested or done it was out of a need, death, sin, or fear. McKnight brings out that if fasting is done looking for only a result then fasting has “become a manipulative device instead of a Christian discipline.”  There is a fine line of a true fast and not one that is just to get what we as an individual want. Fasting should be focused more o...