Make Peace!
We all monitor our behavior to some degree. This keeps us out of trouble and helps us in our personal and professional relationships. But Jesus invites his followers to take monitoring a step further.
What if the God you walked away from never existed to begin with?
Jesus gave us a great template on how we should pray. We look at the elements of that prayer and how we can apply them to our regular prayer lives. The elements of Jesus’s prayer included worship, the desire for God’s will, depending on God to meet our needs, confession, and the quest for godliness. […]
Every believer has been given spiritual gifts. The Holy Spirit within us uses these gifts to build up the kingdom of God. They cannot be misused because they have one source, with one mission. Often times we get the purpose of church confused and make it about ourselves, instead of making it about building […]
Cloud’s Creek Baptist Church Crawford, Georgia: Paul addresses the believers who were gathering together for a shared meal called The Lord’s Supper. This is different than our modern-day communion, this was a meal shared among all believers. There was favoritism and divisions growing in the church because of how some were being treated at these […]
We may think that we live in especially turbulent times, but the fact is that Mankind has been struggling with obedience to God for a long time! This short video covers some of the most important elements of Christianity that are important to focus upon when times are troubled.
Advent Sermons
The people of Corinth had a question about whether or not they should eat food sacrificed to idols. Paul teaches them that there is freedom and knowledge in Christ, but neither of those are as important as love. We should love louder than our knowledge, and our freedom should be selfless instead of selfish. We […]
Cloud’s Creek Baptist Church | September 19, 2021
It took me nearly 5 years into my retirement to discover something about myself. I ALWAYS NEED A PROJECT! Up until early last year (2019), I had been busy with selling my big house of over a decade, then renovating, downsizing and moving into a condo with about 1/4 the square footage of my house. […]
Construction on the farm began to accelerate. First there was a chicken house, then came the barn. Next we built a small corral or stable on the back side of the barn; first for the goats and then we decided to take on a new resident. Down the road from our place was a dairy. […]
One result of our new found rural life was a new intensity in our quest for deer. What had started some years ago with the “First Deer Hunt”, had evolved into a … well… obsession with archery and bowhunting. It was a natural enough transition to archery and traditional archery there in Athens at that […]
There was a turning point in life on the farm after the first year. Dave, Jeff and Bubba were the primary residents; and later Rob came to live, so it was a pretty full house. My own situation had changed a bit, I had newfound flexibility in my job. I began to secretly entertain the […]
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, […]
For Sale. Near Athens, 15 miles from The UGA Arches, 250 Acres. Will subdivide. $1,100 per acre. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx” It was a simple ad in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Sunday in 1992 that immediately caught my attention. The seed of an idea had been planted a few months earlier; the thought of combining our love […]
It’s time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president’s character was revealed for what it was.” – MARK GALLI December 19, 2019 – In our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith. The impeachment of Donald Trump is […]
Andy Stanley – Every generation of Jesus followers is responsible to ensure the news of the Christian faith stays true to the original. So are you good news? What if you’re the only news someone gets? More …
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