With hearts transformed, even when drugs are available, with cigars on sale and liquor readily accessible, people will have the power to make the right choice. Transformation happens through one life at a time.

Valentine’s day has been a yearly tradition but it does not limit sharing your love to your partners alone. It’s also an opportunity to communicate God’s love to anybody you know. You may not have any gift or present ideas at the moment, but should you have a chance to share God’s gift of salvation to a friend, an officemate, or an acquaintance, take time and do it. That’s the most valuable valentine’s gift you can offer.

When you do attend a church retreat, you can bring your Cheapest Digital Cameras, but always remember that you are not there to enjoy yourself, rather to have fellowship with other believers as you seek God and learn new things.

Ministry is meeting others’ needs in love. Everything can be a form of ministry as long as you do it for God with your whole heart. It’s not in the place. Serving isn’t limited within the boundaries of a church building alone. Whether you are talking to your friends giving them godly advice, drying up picnic table covers, or washing the dishes, providing you do it to glory God, is serving at its best. So don’t let your minds and emotions get in the way of moving into God’s direction and function as a worthy Christian.

Even before these advances were introduced, there has also been a gap going on in the Bible times. When sin entered the world, the space between man and God became so huge that no one, not even religion, church membership or offering cannot bind the relationship together. God saw this need. His love for people moved Him to send His own Son to die on the cross so everyone can bridge their way back into His presence and love.

As a minister, God requires each one to be available for everyone in need. To extend to people in your circulation His love, and that includes listening. Hearing and listening are two different things. You may hear what he is saying but you are preoccupied with other things. That is not listening. Listening is when you stop on whatever it is you are doing, look into your friend’s eyes, chew her words bit by bit and try to understand and read between the lines. You will see that behind that beautiful gaze, hiding under eyelash growth products, is a weak friend who needs God’s love through you.

You can see the same principle to Christian church. Generally, members of the church originate from one single worker then grow and multiply. As one individual water and feed another with the Word of God, another seed surfaces and the process continues. More seed means more workers. More workers, the larger the unit becomes. The larger the unit, the wider and faster the gospel is shared. What a unique way to represent how Christ’s family develops.

So, the next time you see an aspen furniture or tree, think of God’s wondrous way of how everything is made.

However you may want to view it, molding of a good craft does not take overnight. It’s like buying your preferred item. Even if you have 2012 pottery barn coupons, still, the maker will ask you to wait for the product to be ready. That’s how it is with Christians. It takes time for one to get molded. Every layer is focused on. At times, they pot gets broken but the powerful hands of the Potter will never get tired until he becomes whole.

Answering the question of what the best gift to give to God is difficult because, after all, God already has everything. He owns the universe and can have what He wants. Giving Him offerings, titanium bracelets for men or other material stuff is not enough.

Romans 12:1 says, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.” It implies that offering our lives as living sacrifices pleases God. So live your life for God because that is the best gift that you can give Him.

The secret to that is not fancy beauty products or make-ups but having joy inside. Problems are inevitable but these people know how to respond to such unbearable situations. They focus on God, and in return they feel the comfort under His arms, giving them joy that lasts and radiates.

So, the next time you see someone exuding such aura, you might want to take out one of your canon camcorders and ask him/her about her testimony-on how he/she looks on the bright side of things- for others to see.