by Ron Moore | Dec 10, 2019 | Blogs, Culture, Everyday Life, Faith
Can you imagine a salesman who never sold a product … a surgeon who never performed a surgery … a trial lawyer who never tried a case … an interior decorator who never decorated the interior of anything … a teacher who never taught … a preacher who never preached … a...
by Ron Moore | Dec 3, 2019 | Blogs, Christmas, Culture, Everyday Life
When you hear the word “hospitality” it is often in terms of a person having people over for dinner capped off with coffee and dessert. That’s a great thing to do, but biblical hospitality goes much deeper. Someone has well said: Hospitality is not having someone into...
by Ron Moore | Nov 27, 2019 | Blogs, Culture, Everyday Life, Faith, Fear
Joshua, the Old Testament leader of Israel, was given a heavy assignment. Following the great leader Moses, God charged Joshua to lead Israel into the Promised Land. Joshua knew the challenges and risks. Seven groups of people inhabited the Canaan and there would be...
by Ron Moore | Nov 20, 2019 | Blogs, Culture, Everyday Life, Faith
Believers know that following Christ involves sacrifice. There will be battles to fight. We want to know if the battles will be worth it. Joshua knew that they would not enter the Promised Land the next day or the day after that. There would be many battles to fight....
by Ron Moore | Nov 13, 2019 | Blogs, Culture, Grace
Recently I used a story from Philip Yancey’s book, What’s So Amazing About Grace, in a sermon. The story was told by a pastor who had a prostitute come to him for help. She had been “renting out” her two-year-old daughter in order to support her drug habit. In the...
by Ron Moore | Oct 7, 2019 | Blogs, Culture, Everyday Life, Faith
The right thing to do is always to do the right thing. Obedience is always the path to take. The road of obedience always leads to the desired destination. But…let’s face it…obedience is hard. Even Jesus learned obedience “from what he suffered” (Hebrews 5:7-8). I...