Oswald Chambers said, “Prayer does not fit us for a greater work; it is the greater work.”  We all know the importance and power of prayer, but for some reason, it is an area of weakness for most believers.  Bearing the burden of emotional and spiritual weights can fatigue your soul, discourage your heart, and stymie your growth.  That is why the Bible instructs us to pray with, and for, one another.  We often struggle in prayer because we go at it all alone.

Rarely does a single soldier obtain victory in his own strength.  It is seldom that a …

If we are going to make an impact in the lives of young people, we must do it quickly, emphatically, and intentionally –they grow up pretty fast, and if you don’t influence their faith, heart, and mind at a tender age, it is certain, someone else will.  In the five years I have been at Cross Roads, I have seen many of our youth grow and mature into fine young Christians.  When you consider the context of their daily lives, such spiritual growth is a praise-worthy accomplishment.

Their world is vastly different than the world of their parents.  The culture …

I love being married.  For years I prayed that God would unite my heart with someone I could spend the rest of my life with.  The first time I met Heather Pugh, I knew that God had heard and answered my prayer.  On Valentine’s Day in 2000, I asked her to be my wife.  On a stagecoach in downtown Atlanta she made me the happiest man in the world when she said “yes.”  She has continued to make me happy throughout these thirteen years.

We have learned many things throughout the course of our marriage, and I am certain we …

I love America, and I want her back.  I do not say that in a mean or ill-spirit; and I am not implying that she was ever the possession of a certain group of people.  But what America has become and is becoming is not the America I grew up in.

The America I grew up in believed and worshiped the True and Living God.  Since our inception we have boasted only in the God of the Bible.  From our nation’s beginning we acknowledged Him alone as Sovereign- on our money, in our documents, and in our worship.  We …

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon poetically described the various seasons of life.  There is a time for this, and a time for that.  Life unfolds naturally…sometimes triumphantly, sometimes tragically; but always in divine order.  Our birth, life, and death all exist within the parameters of time, or as Solomon put it, the seasons of life.  Quite literally, life is a collection of seasons.  Though the fade from one to the other is gradual, it is constant and ever-moving.  It cannot be stopped.

In the diligent and fervent effort to slow the process of time, we ironically seem to speed …