Embracing Doubt: Why Questioning Can Strengthen Faith
Welcome to our faith blog, dear community. Today, we venture into an area that many in the religious world may find uncomfortable or even...
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Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Dec 3, 2022
5 Christlike Ways to Handle Disagreements
In life, there will always be conflict. No matter how much we try to avoid it, there will always be people who share different opinions...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Aug 13, 2022
We Are All Cultists On the Inside
There are different ways to distinguish a church from a cult. Churches hold to a broad consensus of orthodox beliefs while cults...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Sep 10, 2021
“How can I trust God with my future if I secretly think my past decisions were wrong?”
What do you do when you think you’ve blown it but you aren’t quite sure? Maybe you shouldn’t have changed jobs. Maybe you shouldn’t have...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jul 14, 2021
Friends Are Born for Adversity
A friend loves at all times and a brother (or sister) is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17:17) So few of these kinds of relationships seem...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jun 25, 2021
Karma. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Discernment is important. Slowing down and…thinking, asking questions…is vital for our spiritual health. Two things that initially seem...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jun 17, 2021
Advice to My 30-Year-Old Self
It happened on the way to the airport. We had just finished some mission work in Uganda and Tanzania and we were on the way back to the...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- May 12, 2021
How to Deal with Pain Caused by Christians and the Church
Hate is easy. People are sinners who do sinful things to each other. Hatred over this is automatic. Love is hard. Jesus Christ, while you...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Mar 7, 2021
Four Myths About God's Will
What Happened, Lord?” It’s a common question, isn’t it? You set out to get a new job, you work hard for it, you go through the interview...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Apr 22, 2020
A Psalm for the Pandemic
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Apr 4, 2020
Family Devotional: "What We Really Need"
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for.
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Mar 4, 2020
The Most Important Thing My Mom Did
For all the good things my mom did for me, I believe that the most important was simply living as Christians before me.
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Feb 29, 2020
The Seeds of Divorce
I recently spoke with a group of young adults, men and women in their late teens and early twenties, and we spoke about singleness, & dating
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jan 22, 2020
New Year, New Creation
So in my life as a Christian, I have often felt guilty. Like I’m a big disappointment. And God is waiting to punish me.
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jul 16, 2019
What does God want to make possible? Meditation on Matthew 14:28-30
I'm preaching to myself. When confronted with a problem, I usually ask, "What is possible given this set of circumstances?"
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jun 21, 2019
No man can prevent God from blessing you: Meditation on Genesis 25:23
One of the most harmful sins I commit is comparing myself with others and believing that I'm not getting what I need from them.
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jun 18, 2019
Suffering is a part of the plan: Meditation on Genesis 25:22
Genesis 25:22: "The children struggled together within her, and she said, 'If it is thus, why is this happening to me?' So she went to...
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Jun 11, 2019
God wants me more than he wants anything I can do for him: Meditation on Genesis 22:1
If God can't have our hearts—our wholehearted devotion, our love—God doesn't want anything else!
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Apr 29, 2019
An Inconvenient Truth
Exodus gives eleven chapters to this description. Bottom line: following and worshipping the Lord may be difficult, but he is worthy.
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church
- Apr 10, 2019
"To your offspring I give this land”: Meditation on Genesis 15:18
Needless to say, God's word isn't like mine: when God says, "I will do," he always means, "I have done."
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