Our pastor has been preaching a series this month entitled “A Dysfunctional Family Christmas”. “If you have a crazy family member, raise your hand,” he instructed from the pulpit on Sunday. Looking around I noticed that most everyone raised their hand.

In his book, Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby writes, “What you believe about God will determine what you do and how you live.” What do you believe about God? Do you believe He is able to kill your giants? If you were a little shepherd boy faced with Goliath, would you have worn King Saul’s armor or would you have had the faith to believe that God would enable you to defeat the giant with what was in your hand?

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Let’s be real. How many of you daydream? When you daydream, who is the star of your dreams?

Be strong and very courageous...Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful (Joshua 1:6a,7). If someone could look inside your mind, what would they find?

Did you know there are trophy wives in the Bible, women who were so beautiful that they were a status symbol? When a famine in Canaan forced Abram and Sarai to go to Egypt for awhile (Gen 12), Abram was so aware of Sarai’s beauty that he actually feared for his life. In fact, he even warned her, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

Are you addicted to love? Have you settled for an unhealthy relationship even though you know better? Do you hop from one unhealthy relationship to another?