by vfcadmin | Jan 16, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Contemplating Reality in the New Year Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer What do human beings long for? I recently read a list that provided a framework for an answer: people want safety, happiness, and freedom from pain. While there are other items one might add to that...
by vfcadmin | Dec 21, 2024 | advent
Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer “During the hurry of the festive occasion of this Christmas season, find time to turn your heart to God.” Howard W. Hunter “Christmas celebrates the awesome and amazing fact that God is grander, wiser and more mysterious than we...
by Michael Floyd | Sep 27, 2024 | The Gospel Today
If you have read many of the Ventures newsletter The Hidden Treasures of Messiah Jesus (or been exposed to much of Pastor McCarty’s teaching at all), then you know the heart of Ventures for Christ is to see followers of Jesus become “Cross Disciples,” those who live...
by office | May 28, 2015 | Blog Home
We now come to our fourth revelational issue about our circumstances. Let’s review the first three issues. We see that 1) circumstances don’t exist by accident. We cannot simply change them for our pleasure and plans. Rather, 2) they exist for God to creatively use as...
by office | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog Home
Our definition of the word circumstance literally means the things that stand (stances) around (circa). As long as we live all of us will always have issues, demands, duties, pressures, and some crises standing around us. Most will delight or challenge while many can...
by office | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog Home
I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “under the circumstances.” I do recall that it had to do with people being under pressure and trying to maintain some kind of joy and victory even though their circumstances were weighing them down...
by office | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog Home
Shirley and I were watching a dramatic television show recently where a young woman and her husband were happily on the way to the hospital to deliver her firstborn. But on the way she and her husband were involved in a tragic auto accident. Both of them were alive...
by office | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog Home
The beloved Paul prayed for the Ephesians (and us) that “… the Spirit of wisdom and revelation would enlighten our hearts …” (Eph. 1:18). To be so enlightened means the Lord Himself continually explains to us the reasons for the good and evil on earth as...
by office | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog Home
Having sought to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus for over 60 years and to disciple others as well, I have come to a solid conviction about the only three possible attitudes that a Christian can have about their following of the Lord. Those three mindsets or attitudes...
by office | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog Home
A Testimony of Greatness “When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me, I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given me. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in...
