Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
A runner cannot look backward otherwise they stumble and fall. They must look forward, racing toward the end, toward the prize as it were....
Welcome to my blog. I have served as a Methodist pastor for over 20 years, and over those years, I have had the privilege and opportunity to reflect and journal on God’s inspired Word in the Bible. While I am not much of a writer (please forgive my grammar), I am pleased to share some of these reflections on this site with you. These are not to replace your own devotional time with God in God’s Word, but to give you additional thoughts to help you on your journey. – Pastor Matt Stoll
As You Wish
One of the movies I hate that I love is the “Princess Bride”. It is a cheesy and humorous rendition of a fairy tale with the...
Prayer
“6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is...
Leaving a Spiritual Legacy
2 Timothy 2:1-2 “You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard me say in the...
Renewing Your Mind
“For as he (a person) thinketh in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7, KJV). “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be...
Hope vs. Optimism
Biblical hope is different from optimism or positive or wishful thinking. Optimism is generally seeing the circumstances around us and...
The Big Ten – Part 2: Honoring the Sabbath
Exodus 35:2–3 (NIV) 2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD....
The Big Ten (Commandments) – Part 1
In the Ten Commandments God begins with two regarding our prioritizing God as first place in our life, have no other gods before me, and do...
Sexual Immorality
With the current debates in our culture, and even in the church over human sexuality, I find the contribution of Hebrews 13:4 to be an...