Basic Obedience: What’s the Issue?

By Kerry Skinner / June 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Basic Obedience: What’s the Issue?

Basic obedience is at the heartbeat of basic Christianity. Matthew 7:21 (Skinner paraphrase) “Not everyone that calls Jesus Lord really means it. Only those who do what Jesus says really mean it.” Did you know that God created you spiritually, as a Christian, to obey? God created you to obey–not command. What is your human…

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Right Choices: Discretion

By Kerry Skinner / June 5, 2025 / Comments Off on Right Choices: Discretion

Developing Discretion Right choices begin with right thinking! It is not enough to hope that you are making the right choice, you must base your decisions on right information. And most of all, your timing must be right! When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you;  Understanding will…

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God’s Amazing Work!

By Kerry Skinner / May 28, 2025 / Comments Off on God’s Amazing Work!

God’s amazing work happens in many unnoticed ways–at least unnoticed in the beginning of a story. Measure Your Life by Wesley Duewel tells an amazing testimony. Duewel tells the story of a man named Stephen Grellat who walked very closely with God and obeyed the Lord even when he did not understand all of the details…

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Forgiveness is Conditional

By Kerry Skinner / May 7, 2025 / Comments Off on Forgiveness is Conditional

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 Focus on Christ Which of these do you think most people choose? 1)…

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Worldly vs. Godly Sorrow

By Kerry Skinner / April 30, 2025 / Comments Off on Worldly vs. Godly Sorrow

Worldly sorrow is unmistakably different than godly sorrow. Is it possible for you to say, “I am sorry,” but not mean it? Yes. What kind of sorrow is that? It is worldly sorrow, not godly sorrow. This type of sorrow has no intention of producing change. It is simply sorry that a situation exists or…

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Normal Reactions To Correction

By Kerry Skinner / April 23, 2025 / Comments Off on Normal Reactions To Correction

What is your normal reaction to correction? When a friend confides, “I’m going to be very frank with you.” Do you grasp his hand and pull him to a chair so he can sit down and tell you your shortcoming? Do you shout for joy that he is about to get another glimpse of your…

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The Joy of Repentance!

By Kerry Skinner / April 16, 2025 / Comments Off on The Joy of Repentance!

Most people wonder how there could really be a joy of repentance. I think that is why confession of sin seems to be common in our day, but repentance of sin is rare. In many ways, the Body of Christ has forsaken the biblical mandate to repent, defining the process as negative and burdensome. The…

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Trouble, Perplexity, and Rejection

By Kerry Skinner / April 9, 2025 / Comments Off on Trouble, Perplexity, and Rejection

Trouble, perplexity, persecution, and rejection are all difficult to face. The Apostle Paul had all of these but understood that there is a power that will enable a person to face such treatment without distress, despair, self-pity, or ruin. It is the power of God. The end products of distress can definitely be bodily changes.…

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The Faithfulness of God

By Kerry Skinner / April 2, 2025 / Comments Off on The Faithfulness of God

God’s faithfulness is beyond measure, yet, the sad fact is that many miss out on recognizing the faithfulness of God. The faithfulness of God is the most consistent thing on earth! You might have thought the Old Faithful geyser At Yellowstone National Park was the most consistent thing on earth. After all, the geyser was named in 1870 and…

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Joy Doesn’t Depend On Perfect Behavior

By Kerry Skinner / March 26, 2025 / Comments Off on Joy Doesn’t Depend On Perfect Behavior

Though right living enhances joy, no person can attain perfect behavior all the time. We must find joy in a source other than our behavior. When would you be able to rejoice and have great joy if it depended on perfect behavior? Striving toward perfectionism you cannot attain, keep, control, or manage may push you…

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