Dining at restaurants can be a pleasant thing. Or it could be an adventure. Depending on where you go, what time it is, and how much luck you may or may not have, it would either come out with an excellent, decent, mediocre, or poor outcome.

Well, tonight at Abuelo's in The Colony, Texas, went just fine. They had a lady training a young man how to take orders and follow up with customers just like a good waiter/waitress is supposed to do. We got the orders put...

"Now NO BLACKSMITH COULD BE FOUND in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, 'Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.' So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes. So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul...

And He said to them all, "If any man will [willingly choose to] come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." Luke 9:23

Each of us who desires to personally know and serve the Lord must first make this life-changing decision to "take up our cross." When we willingly do this, we submit ourselves to seeking and pursuing God's purpose for our life.

If we accept this challenge ("If anyone will come after Me"),...

Good evening Brittany,
I’m under review for a unit. My credit is low 6s, I would like to send my 12-month rent payment but I only live at my current apartment for 3 months.

What should I do?

When Jesus went up the mountain with three of His disciples, he was transfigured or altered from His human state to a glorified one (Matthew 17:1-9). It was a fearful moment of splendor as the Son of Man revealed His heavenly identity and manifested His glory in human form.


HIS BRILLIANCE WOULD BE EXPOSED AGAIN

Jesus declares to His disciples "Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead." (Matthew 17:2). This was indicating...