A Closer Walk Today

How often do you eat? Once per day? Three times? Six? Who in the world would eat six meals per day you might ask. Healthy people and body builders do. Growing up as a child in our home we at three meals a day and maybe a snack. Then I hit the teen years. God bless my parents. I ate them out of house and home.  In the morning I would have cereal and toast.  At lunch I would have a sandwich and a shake. By the time I got home I would eat a can of spaghetti and a pb&j. Then I would ask when dinner was. My mom was amazed how much I consumed. It was a blessing that mom is such a great cook too. I was just an eating machine. God bless mom.  I say all that to say that my parents set the tone and rhythm for eating, but so did my growth. New believers as well as seasoned need to establish healthy rhythms in the Word. God says for us to remember what He has done for us and receive the meals he gives to nourish our souls. “Open your mouths wide so that I can fill i...

People struggle in life. It is a given. Frankly, it is an understatement. Illness, job loss, financial troubles, death of family member or any significant change brings uncertainty. In this, we are tested. Our faith is tested. We have a saying, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.  I hate these sayings! In the midst of the storm we often can not receive it.  It doesn’t help us cope. We feel alone and isolated. We believe, although falsely, that no one understands. No one can relate. Our situation is different. In some ways, that is true. Your testing is unique to you.  This is being written as my wife and I stand on the edge of a new era in our lives. We have a great life. God has done great things in us and through us. He is transforming us day by day into the people he wants us to be. We are not immune to uncertainty. It is not a necessary evil. When faith is tested, it is a necessary good.  Testing of our faith comes from God. We oddly enoug...

In 1966 my grandfather James Hamrick preached a message to Grace Baptist Church in Ellaville, Georgia titled “That we should walk worthy of the Lord”. He based his sermon on 1 Thessalonians 2:12. The plea from the Apostle Paul stressed a life worthy of our calling.   We ought to look and live different from the world and look more like Jesus.   There is a wide road and a narrow one.   We make a choice to follow, trust and obey. Grandpa took time to wrestle over the word, worthy (axiws).   He bullet pointed his thoughts: ·         Deserving ·         Meriting ·         Trustworthy ·         Fit for service ·         Suitable and usable John 3:16 shows we are unworthy of his love, but despite that he extravagantly loves us.   He demonstrated his love that while we ...