The following is taken from intro story.Imagine that you loved Mike and Ike's (the candy). You loved them so much that you would do anything to get them. In fact, you loved them so much that you would dream about them when you were at school. You couldn't wait until payday. That's when your mom would give you your monthly allowance. Each month, when she would give you your $12.29 allowance, you'd race to the closest grocery store, head directly towards the candy aisle and grab yours...

Imagine that you were headed to church early one Sunday morning. You had set out your "church clothes" the night before so that you would wear the right clothes. You picked out a white pair of pants and cool looking shirt. You wanted to look your best at church. There was this one girl that you wanted to impress. So you spent 2 hours in the morning to spiff yourself up. You put your clothes on and brushed your teeth. You weren't even going to eat breakfast because you wanted to take the ex...

Sometimes we get caught up in talking and forget that God gave us two ears with which we can hear each other. God also gave us spiritual ears that He uses to communicate with us. God is a relational being. That means that He created us so that we can have a relationship with Him, our Creator. But sometimes we fill our lives up with so much noise that we drown God's voice out.In order to hear God, we need to be tuned to Him. If we don't practice this "tuning in" process, it can go w...

One upon a time in a galaxy far, far away was an evil alien race called the Zits. They came from the planet of Zitoid. The planet Zitoid was in the far reaches of the Zittyway galaxy. This galaxy had twelve suns and fourteen and a half planets (one planet came to a head and blew its top off so now it's just a half a planet but that's not the point of the story).Zitoid was ruled by King Zitty. He was a good king and treated all the other Zits well. Life had been the same for many, m...

It was the beginning of another day. The stars disappeared as night gave way to day. The horizon looked like as if it was on fire with brilliant colors of gold, yellows, and deep shades of blue.You had spent the night out under the stars on a hill a short distance away from the town you grew up in. It was a sleepy, little town nestled in a lush, green valley. The grass on the hill was glistening with dew as if there were diamonds on the tips of each blade of grass.As you we...

Exerpt from story in Part 3You grabbed the two stone tablets (see "Cheesy Picture") with the pictures etched into them and ran out of the room to see if they fit someplace on the stone pillars. You thought it was kinda strange that there would be a picture of a cartoon bear in this ancient place, but this is Ron's story and I guess he can do whatever his twisted mind can think of.You ran over to the next pillar and set one of the pictures on top. You waited . . . And waited...

No one can use the excuse that "I can't obey God because I don't know what the rules are". God has made it really clear that we, as followers of Christ, are to act a certain way. He doesn't want us to act the way the rest of the world around us acts. He wants us to be different. So God gave us rules to live by throughout the entire Bible.Not only did He give us rules to live by, He also gave us a huge example of how we are to live. He sent His son Jesus, dressed in a skin suit (God...

Have you ever imagined what it was like for Mary to be the mother of Jesus? There had been countless prophecies about the coming Messiah. Everyone knew the Scriptures and what they told about the Messiah. But when the angel Gabriel showed up and told Mary that she would be the one, the one person in all of history, to help bring the Son of God into the world, I can't imagine how she felt. This G-TRAX is not about the Christmas story. It's about Mary and the faith, the real faith that she h...

During the next several weeks we are going to take a look at each one of the spiritual gifts mentioned in the Bible. We will take each one and see what it is, who has these gifts and how they are to be used in the church. The first two gifts we are going to look at are the gifts of Wisdom and Knowledge. There is a lot of stuff in the Bible about wisdom. Solomon devoted much of his life to teaching others about it. Of course, he was da man who had it all when it came to wisdom. God granted ...

One of the things that Jesus did when He came to earth was to hang with those who were considered scum by the Pharisees and those who taught about God's law. The Pharisees were the ones who were supposed to help keep the Jewish people spiritually healthy, but instead they set up hundreds of rules that the Jewish people had to follow in order to be considered "godly".When Jesus came to earth He was always hangin' with those who were considered "untouchable" by the Pharisees. This we...

Moses did the same thing and God got a little hacked at him. Gideon, like each of us, always has some lame excuse why we can't or won't obey God. "AHHHH!! God, I can't spend time in the Bible. I sprained my finger turning the pages and it hurts soooo bad." or "Hey God, why don't you ask someone else who is more qualified." or "God, you have no idea how busy I am. Please don't add any more to my schedule". Imagine trying to update God on our current situation. Like He doesn't know everythin...

We live in a world that seems to be crumbling at the seams. We live in a world that is full of fear. People are in fear of the future. People live in fear of their lives. Your generation is growing up in a world of guns, terrorist attacks, and lots-o drugs. It seems that our country has taken all their morals and tossed them out the window. How can a person growing up in this world be assured of anything? Can a person really live at peace? Can a person live in this country, in this world, ...