by vfcadmin | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog Home, Year of Reflection
That I Will Do Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer As we enter 2026, as usual, we try to set goals for the year ahead. Let me offer a quote from noted nineteenth century evangelist D. L. Moody as the basis of a meaningful, spiritually powerful New Years resolution.[1] I am...
by vfcadmin | Jan 6, 2026 | Blog Home, NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in May 2025.] One of my mentors in my first few years as a Christian made a statement I didn’t understand at the time, but it impacted me much later, and I’ve never forgotten it. Now, after knowing the Lord Jesus 74 years...
by Michael Floyd | Sep 27, 2024 | Blog Home
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...
