Every Day Life Ministries

Keeping Expectations in the Face of Failure

2012-01-03T15:09:00.000-05:00

Wile E. Coyote Well Happy New Year Folks!! Over this past Christmas and New Years, I got the unusual chance to take a vacation. A long and well needed vacation unlike I have never taken before. As such I got to spend a lot of quality time with my wife and kids, so it's still taking a while to get back into the swing of things this morning. As a family we all got a chance to sit down and

Physical vs Spiritual Hunger

2011-07-15T11:12:00.001-04:00

Hunger. You hear about it all the time. There are millions of people around the world who don't eat on a daily basis. There are numerous organizations out there whose sole mission is to help stamp out hunger. This is great and the efforts of many to feed those in need of physical nourishment should be rewarded. However, the same effort that we see to feed the physical body, should be

We All Have Wilderness Moments

2011-06-03T01:23:00.001-04:00

You know, it has been a while since my last blog entry, but it has not been because of a lack of things to write about. It has been due to lack of dedication and just the moments of life. I think that moment has been one in the "wilderness" for me. "What is this", you may be asking. Well, I would like to define it as a time where we go through different parts of our lives led by the Holy

Jesus Musik: JR's "God of Peace"

2011-03-31T16:12:00.000-04:00

Absolutely beautiful song......

Some Love & A Miracle

2011-03-24T16:45:00.001-04:00

Today is a very special day for me. Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my wife's (Deidra) kidney transplant. This is not her first transplant (she received one from her mother in 1994), but rather her second and this time things seem to be even better than the first, but let me take you back. In January 2009, unbeknown to my wife and I, she had already began to go into kidney failure. It

Waving Through Life

2011-03-03T15:19:00.000-05:00

Have you every noticed how life just seems to ebb and flow? You know, a series of ups and downs or highs and lows. It just seems to be the way life works *shrug*. By now, you know that when goin through life you can have high points and low points. I do not know anyone who has stayed and either a high or low point for all their life. At some point, life fluctuates and we have to adjust

Looking And Not Seeing

2011-01-27T15:23:00.001-05:00

This morning on my commute to work, I was listening to Dr. David Jeremiah on the radio and he was talking about the parable of the Good Samaritan (see Luke 10:25-37). Today, some of the things that I say are my own, sprinkled with some of Dr. Jeremiah's influence. So let's hop to it. In the parable, Jesus tells of a man who was headed to Jericho from Jerusalem and was attacked by some robbers.

I Really, Really, Want It!

2011-01-25T12:23:00.001-05:00

Luke 14-28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? We all have things that we want in life. We see cars, homes, gadgets, and/or potential spouses and we just have to have them. There are things that we did not have as a children growing up and as adults we tend to gravitate to those things because

Cleansing: It's OK to Slow Down (Replay)

2011-01-17T13:53:00.001-05:00

I started to an entry today and as got about a paragraph into it, I realized that the topic sounded familiar. Given this, I dug into the archives and found exactly what I wanted to say. It is amazing how things go full circle. Be blessed folks. -------------- snip --------------- April 9, 2006 Good afternoon gang!I pray that everyone is have a great hump day so far. You know in the year 2006

A Big Mistake

2011-01-06T14:56:00.000-05:00

God, are you serious? You must be mistaken! What just happened to me should not have happened? What just happened to my friend should not have happened? My career was suppose to go different than what it did! God you must have me confused with someone else! Sounds familiar? Have you ever asked or made one of the statements above? If you have, you might want to keep something in mind. God

Lost In Denominations

2011-01-04T12:54:00.001-05:00

Catholicism. Baptist. Methodist. Lutheran. All of these are different "branches" of Christianity and all of them have their own set of governing rules which make them who they claim to be. According to Wikipedia's List of Christian denominations, "there are reported to be approximately 38,000 Christian denominations". I mean, WOW! Really, WOW! I bring this up because I saw a bill board this

You Cannot Do It All By Yourself

2011-01-03T14:34:00.001-05:00

Happy Year Folks!I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas as well! It feels good to be able to jump back into writing, so without delay, I want to go to Exodus 18:13-22. It is a little lengthy, but work with me. There, it says: (13) The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. (14) When his father-in-law saw all that

God's R.O.I. (Replay)

2010-12-16T12:39:00.000-05:00

-------------- snip --------------- March 5, 2008Good morning folks and Happy Hump Day!I hope everyone in the Southeast survived the storms and rain last night. We definitely needed the rain here in NC because Falls Lake now looks like a big sand box. That's ok though because we know that God will provide what we need when we need it as long as we are good stewards of what he gives us. This makes

Success In the Most Unlikely Places

2010-12-03T11:46:00.001-05:00

In what may seem like a strange thing, sometimes we can find success in the most unlikely places and ways. There are so many businesses that have flourished that was never suppose to work. There are people in positions who did not appear to be qualified, but are successful at what they are doing. You may be doing something right now in an area where you had no intentions on being, but look at

Between the Hedges (Replay)

2010-12-02T14:31:00.001-05:00

-------------- snip --------------- February 26, 2008 Good afternoon family. I pray that all are doing well this fine Tuesday in February. Today, I want to take a minute or two to talk about the hedges that God has placed around out lives (and no Deidra we are not talking about UGA Football :-) ). What I'm talking about is God's protection that he places around His own. let's go to some scripture

He Deals With Each of us Differently (Replay)

2010-11-11T11:34:00.001-05:00

-------------- snip ---------------January 29, 2008 Good afternoon fam, I hope that everyone is doing well this nice Tuesday. I want to apologize for my recent leave of absence from the list, but I'm back in the saddle so lets get things rolling. Also, I want to wish my boy Ryan (who is the brain-child of WFTD) a Happy Birthday today. Keep on living your life in a Godly manner broham and do not

Clean Surface Before Applying (Replay)

2010-11-09T11:38:00.001-05:00

-------------- snip ---------------January 9, 2008Happy Hump Day family, I hope all is well with everyone this morning. Today is another great day in the Lord and I thank God for waking me up this morning to be able to see another day. It is truly a blessing because the Lord has really been working on me. The Lord and I have been in some serious dialog lately, so He has His hands on me, reshaping

If...Then....(Replay)

2010-11-08T11:50:00.000-05:00

-------------- snip --------------- December 11, 2007 Good morning family, I pray that all is well with everyone. I don't know about where you are, but in Raleigh, the weather has been absolutely awesome. It's mid December and we are sitting at 80 degree weather, while the majority of the country has ice storms. It will not last long, but lets enjoy what God has provided while it lasts instead

The Disintegrating Family (Replay)

2010-11-04T10:02:00.001-04:00

-------------- snip ---------------October 30, 2007 Good afternoon family. Sorry to get WFTD out so late. Today is a little different and rather a reflection on how things use to be and where I see them headed. This past Thursday thru Sunday (10/25 – 10/28), my household and sister (Deidra's sister) traveled to Hattiesburg, MS to funeralize (is this a word?) her grandmother. Despite the occasion,

The Missing Piece (Replay)

2010-10-27T16:19:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- October 23, 2007 Good morning family, I pray that all are doing well this day. I have a question for the list. Have any of you ever seen someone who does not believe in the Word of God? Let me go back a little bit for you. Were you that someone who did not believe in the Word? If you were what changed your mind? Last week I saw a question about the Bible

Can't Get Right (Replay)

2010-10-25T11:53:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- November 13, 2007 Good afternoon family, I pray that all is well with everyone. Today is a great day in the Lord as He has been truly working miracles in our lives. Today I want to talk about just being plain old hard headed. It's nothing profound, but just straight to the point. In 1 Corinthians 4:21, Paul ends with "What do you prefer? Shall I come to

A Study on Evil - God Chose This World (Replay)

2010-10-19T14:41:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- September 25, 2007 Good afternoon family. It's good to be back as I missed you guys. Ryan, thanks for holding down the fort while we were out on vacation. That's how it should be. When your brothers/sisters are out, other brothers and sisters step in to fill the void. So, again thanks bro-ham. Today will be our final day on the study on evil. Again, I

A Study on Evil - What's Its Purpose and Why So Much? (Replay)

2010-10-18T11:16:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- September 5, 2007 Happy Hump Day Everyone, It is truly a great day to be alive. I started feeling a little under the weather these past couple of days but I've already spoken to this thing and I'm coming out! Besides my wife and I have a vacation to attend next week, so no room for sickness *LOL*. I could call the slight sickness evil but then that would

A Study on Evil - Why Can't Evil Be Stopped (Replay)

2010-10-15T10:31:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- September 4, 2007 Good Morning Family, I pray that everyone had a good Labor Day yesterday, although it seems like more people work now-a-days on Labor Day than have the day off. In continuation with our study on evil, today we will tackle the question of "why can't evil be stopped?" To ask "why can't evil be stopped" implies that there is a counter

A Study on Evil - Where Did Evil Come From? (Replay)

2010-10-14T10:42:00.000-04:00

-------------- snip --------------- August 29, 2007 Good morning family, I pray that all are doing well this day. Today we will continue our study on the topic of evil. This week we will tackle the question of "Where in the world (or out of this world) did evil came from?" Last week, we were wrapping up how we defined evil which gave us a different way of looking at it. We did leave one