“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” ~Vernon Howard It can be hard to find time to learn amid the busyness of work and family but if you have a few minutes here and there, that’s enough.  Pick up a good book, try a new cuisine or [...]

Life is made up of choices. Some are simple ones; others are more complex. But each day, we must choose how we will live in the present. The Bible offers several passages that contrast trusting in oneself and trusting in God. The images these passages offer are very vivid, poetic and motivating. They are perfect [...]

Agreeing With God About Sin When God brings to your attention that something you have done is sin, confess it. This confession involves at least three factors: 1. Agree with God that you have sinned. 2. Thank God that He has already forgiven you. 3. Trust God to change your wrong attitude and actions. By [...]

You are now beginning to live the Christian life, which isn’t a standard of performance or a code of ethics, but a vital personal relationship with a loving God. Just as our relationship with God is totally dependant on what God has done through Jesus Christ, so the power to live a dynamic Christian life [...]

Spend time imagining Christ as a vine and you as a branch, bearing His fruit. What ideas of the type of relationship He wants with you do you gather from this image found in John 15? What questions about your relationship with Him do you want to ask Him?  Ask him to give you insight [...]

The fruit of the Spirit is… not was… not will be… Is… Right here.. Right now… These are not just qualities the Spirit produced in the lives of Christians in the past… They are not just qualities He will produce in us in heaven… He is producing them in the lives of people surrendered to [...]

God desires to empower you through the Holy Spirit to live a Christ-directed life. As you continue to breathe spiritually (confess your sin and claim the fullness of the Spirit), you will experience a deepening fellowship with God enabling you to grow in Christian maturity. 1). What does it mean to grow in Christ?  Video [...]

God desires to empower you through the Holy Spirit to live a Christ-directed life. As you continue to breathe spiritually (confess your sin and claim the fullness of the Spirit), you will experience a deepening fellowship with God enabling you to grow in Christian maturity. 1). What does it mean to grow in Christ?  Video [...]

Compliance is now a no-option legislated requirement. The risks associated with non-compliance are so enormous, the penalties so severe, that only an alien could imagine ignoring these rules.  With the potential expansion of Sarbanes-Oxley and ever more stringent AML protocols, everyone in the industry has scrutiny on the brain. The intention behind all this legislative [...]

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Life Through Photos

Age eventually catches up to us all. Wednesday is the story of 70-year-old Roger as he goes about his life amidst the complexity of Los Angeles and throughout it all he photographs his every move. What the photographs mean says something about how we relate to others and to the world as we get older. [...]