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Today, on this Mother’s Day of 2025, I am remembering my mother. She passed away in 2010. As a young girl, she experienced the pain of her parent’s divorce in a day when such things were frowned upon. She grew up in the deep South. She only had one pair of shoes...
It has become popular in some circles of the Church to dismiss the current expression of the nation of Israel, thinking its national goals have separated it from God. If that were the case, all of us would be separated from God because none of us are perfect, and no...
We need to be careful accepting the definitions provided by some theologians of what they have defined as only a metaphor. Unless we are careful about accepting all we have been taught to believe, we will accept a logical understanding for things not meant to be...
A dangerous stretch of spiritual and cultural whitewater is approaching. Those who have been trained by faith will possess the necessary skills required to safely navigate the coming rapids My son-in-law is an expert kayaker. He has kayaked challenging rapids both in...
A significant spiritual deprogramming is taking place. This deprogramming is a work of God’s Spirit. It is causing people to wake up from all forms of deception that held them in bondage - spiritual, cultural, and relational bondage. These...
The use of labels has another purpose beyond simply identifying someone or something. It has become a tool used to prepare people to reject a person or an idea before they are discerning enough to make an informed decision. The news media and academia are the cultural...
Affixing the label of misinformation to an opposing point of view is a tactic of control. It presumes people are ignorant, unable to make their own informed decisions. Whenever a government or private entity decides what is acceptable and limits free expression and...
I began writing this word a few weeks ago but did not have the final content until this morning. The word was parked away in my writing file until an image came that gave the word its intended content. The word is about drawing lines in the sands of life. We all draw...
One of the greatest challenges of the Christian faith is how it interfaces with culture. An interface is defined as a point where two things meet and interact. I have tried to look beyond the current struggles taking place at this moment in time and imagine how...
This morning just before getting out of bed, I was processing some thoughts about the Lord. I considered what I would ask Him if we had a conversation here on Earth - not a time of prayer, but a real face-to-face sit-down meeting. The longer I pondered that thought...
God’s ability to lead us into truth is greater than Satan’s ability to lead us into error. Where we place our hope in times of increasing deception will become the testimony of our lives.
Understanding how we arrive at our assumptions is as important as the assumptions themselves. Assumptions are created by the programming that has molded our lives and our current way of thinking. The source of an assumption is discovered when we understand the...
Whatever position you might hold regarding vaccinations, masks, and COVID-19 policy (including the little box that will surely be attached to this posting by our social media overlords), it should concern you that we have entered unchartered waters in this generation....
One of the most challenging situations in a life of faith takes place when we apply our beliefs to the affairs of daily life where opposing opinions exist. This is where relational dustups have taken place in the last two years among believers that...
I was invited to a series of meetings with a film producer and screenwriter who create faith-based movies. They wanted another set of eyes on their project. In our conversation about the movie script, I asked a question. “Why do some actors in faith-based movies have...