For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. - Corinthians 10:3-4 What men call “salvation” is simply the first stage of God’s plan for our lives, which is to conform us in character and power to the image of Jesus Christ. If we fail to see our relationship to God as such, we will allow too many areas within us to remain unchanged. Pulling down s

We are entering an exciting time here at SOH! God has called us and is equipping us to go and spread the Word outside of these walls. We use terms today, like me eating peanut M&M’s, by the mouthful. One term that I find myself using a lot is WARRIOR. I call myself a warrior but I realized I didn’t even know what that meant. A warrior is a person engaged or experienced in warfare or engaged in some struggle or conflict. As I thought about the definition, the word warfare jump

How many times have you heard someone say, “If you only knew what I know.” Would that make a difference in the way you felt about someone or something? Maybe so. Gossip, what an ugly thing. God said in Proverbs 18:21, Death and life are in the power of the tongue. I want to choose life. I believe that as Christians there are so many things we can tell others that will bring them life. DID YOU KNOW that Jesus healed the blind man? He has the power to do the same thing

Consider the gold miners that helped lead the expansion to the west. Did they just start digging for no reason? Of course not, they saw that someone else had an experience with it and wondered if they could share in that experience. Worship sometimes happens the same way for us. We see the experience someone is having and wonder if we can have the same thing. But until we have a relationship with Christ our Worship doesn’t have a “why”. We allow our Worship to feed off o

I have a special treasure that I used to carry with me a lot. I have quit using it. It used to work great but I don’t know if even works any more, however I keep it in a special place on a shelf. It is a gold pocket watch on a chain (fake gold) lol. I wonder if that has happened to some of our special Bible verses. The one I would like to recall you will probably know. If you ever went to VBS, it was a memory verse. Perhaps you don’t use it any more. It starts out like t