"Amen" or "Amend"

tencommandmentsPastor Joe Flores
The holy scriptures teach us many things. For everything that the Holy Scriptures teach man adds his stuff to it. God gave the children of Israel 10 commandments. The religious elite of the children of Israel added another 635 laws that "they" said were necessary to obey the original 10 that God gave them to live by.

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Choosing To Suffer Is A Heroic Characteristic

StMosesPastor Joe Flores
I have preached and heard many others preachers say that Moses greatest quality was that he was the meekest man on the earth. This thinking is derived from Numbers 12: 3.

Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. It is easy to see how the emphasis on Moses meekness catapulted to the top of his many great personal character traits.

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Calling It A Day

Black Jesus painted by Ethiopian Christians in Africa by Pastor Joe Flores
Hey, my dear brother and my dear sister, as the pace slows and you prepare to call it a day, there are some of us who are reflecting back over the day. There are some of us who are reflecting back over the years. And there may be some of us who are reflecting back over the decades.

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LIVE PASSIONATELY

livepassionatelyby Pastor Joe Flores
"Don't allow your emotions to cloud your judgment", is popular conventional wisdom that most of us are familiar with. Thinking retrospectively I can remember times when I applied that wisdom and I can remember times when I wish I had applied that wisdom more definitely. In business, management and the execution of tasks it is more often a useful piece of advice. Socrates, the father of philosophy said "Know thyself".

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The Law and the Heart

by Rev. Dr. Henry Vernon
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Hebrews 8:10

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