“Real Life With Pastor Mike”

A Daily Devotional
Love The Giver More Than The Gift
September 19th, 2024
“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.”Ephesians 1:3Have you ever heard the expression, “Love the giver more than the gift”? It’s pretty straight forward and it’s sad we even have to remind ourselves and each other to not forget. The danger we read over and over again in scr...
Pride Is Nothing To Celebrate
September 18th, 2024
“Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.”Proverbs 29:23It’s easy to read the title and think that this is a slam against the LGBQT+ groups who celebrate Pride Week and Pride Month throughout the year. I have nothing personal against those groups using the name PRIDE to express themselves. In truth my heart hurts for anyone, myself included who ever thinks of pride in a positive lig...
5 More Minutes
September 17th, 2024
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.”John 14:1-4After being in the car for hours I would complain to my parents, “When are we going to be there?” The answer was often the same, “5 more minutes”. My parents would say that in hopes I would sit back and relax thinking we would arrive shortly. Reading in John’s Gospel something a friend of mine once told me came to ...
Enjoy The Ride
September 16th, 2024
“One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and started out.”Luke 8:22There’s a valuable lesson to be learned in this story. If God says it that settles it. You can trust anything and everything Jesus says. If He said get in the boat and let’s cross over to the other side of the lake you can rest assured you are going to make it safely...
Where Are Your Shoes?
August 23rd, 2024
“And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.”Matthew 5:41I came across a quote that left me laughing as I tried to imagine the scenario. It said, "Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” Ha! Immediately I thought of Jesus and one of His most well known teachings in all the Bible, “The Sermon on the Mount.” Ha...
Hope is not I hope so hope, its I know so hope
August 22nd, 2024
“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.”Hebrews 11:1When the Bible talks about hope it means something entirely different than what most people define hope to be. If you ask people what the word hope means to them it’s no surprise to get a definition that aligns more with a wish than with a promise. To hope in the Lord is to hope in a sure thing. N...
Understanding The END Times
August 21st, 2024
“and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”Luke 21:11In my curiosity I have learned a lot as I have sat these past few months and watched and listened to what many of you are seeing with your own eyes too. The very things the Bible warns us that will happen in the last days are happening right before our v...
Grief Is Just Love With No Where To Go
August 20th, 2024
“He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us”2 Corinthians 1:4A Nicholas Sparks quote from the movie, “A Walk To Remember” comes to mind today, “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be go...
Angels Watching Over You
August 19th, 2024
“Therefore, angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.”Hebrews 1:14I always enjoy stories where people share about how a mysterious person showed up in a time of need and helped them or comforted them while they waited for help to arrive. I have read numerous accounts where someone was involved in a terrible accident of some kind and when they were found b...
How To Get Along
August 16th, 2024
“Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.”Ephesians 4:3We don’t make unity or manufacture unity. We just keep the unity going that Jesus provided in his body on the Cross. Unity is something that was provided for us, a gift to us. Imagine the pressure on you and me if it was up to us to have to come up with a way to be unified with God and ...