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There are times when it can seem appropriate to a person who holds a public position or office to challenge someone publicly with whom they disagree. That public challenge will gain support from people of a like mind, but it will not build trust with the one who is...
All of us are imprisoned by something. How we choose to live will indicate the kind of prison we have chosen. When Paul wrote his prison epistles, he wrote with firsthand knowledge of what it meant to be imprisoned. He was kept behind bars which restricted his...
The night before the Inauguration, I had a very troubling dream. It wasn’t about politics or who would be selected to lead our nation. It was about the spiritual condition of the Church. In the dream, I was conducting a wedding ceremony. The ceremony unfolded like...
My father loved to take my brother and me out for breakfast. Dad’s “go-to” breakfast order for his two boys was steak and eggs. When we were in route to a construction site for a day's work or on the road for a hunting or fishing trip, dad always found joy in our...
In the fall of 2019, Jan and I had both had vivid dreams on the same night. Our dreams were about snakes. In my dream, as I walked along, I was confronted by a giant serpent. It was as tall as a two-story house. When it opened its mouth to attack me, I tossed a bible...
I prophesy that all who choose to live by the following instructions will prosper in their soul in 2021, without exception. That prospering cannot be hindered in any way if these instructions are taken to heart. Read the following words and trust them. They are the...
Before the shutdown, the Lord asked me to approach Scripture differently for a season. For 18 months, I didn’t read the Word. I listened to it using an audio app. My bible was not in my lap each morning as it had been for many years. The intent of the exercise was to...
Most of the time, being known as a reasonable person is a good thing. Reasonableness seeks to find a favorable middle ground. That choice, however, will not apply to all situations in all seasons. There are other times when reasonableness demands we compromise without...
Prepare now to receive back those you strongly disagreed with and distanced yourself from during this unusual pandemic and election season. Do it for the sake of God’s Kingdom and your spiritual wellbeing. An opposing opinion is not enough of a reason to separate...
Someone who discharges a firearm is responsible for the bullet from the moment it is fired until it ceases forward motion. The path of the bullet carries legal, civil, and moral consequences. So do our words. One of the sad things in war is death by friendly fire....
Earlier this year, Jan was asked to write an article for a magazine. She wrote on a subject I had not given much thought to before reading her words. Jan wrote about the power of God's magnetic presence, magnetizing the hearts of people to move toward the love of...
I’ve noticed a sad trend. The deeper we get into this pandemic lockdown and election cycle, the easier it becomes for some to resort to name-calling, negative characterization, and in some cases, celebrating the illness or misfortune of someone they dislike. In some...
It’s only “game-changing” if we are involved in the right game. Be careful of using hyperbole in hyper-emotional times. People will begin to lose confidence in the sound and content of a messenger who continually moves from one frantic and emotional issue to the next...
I remember traveling in the old USSR. It was a sad place. A pall of heaviness rested atop the nation like a dark cloud. To add to the spirit of control, the government used neighbor against neighbor as informants, aka “snitches” who informed on their neighbors for...
Intense times, both personally and culturally, are times of preparation. They are like a spiritual and emotional boot camp where the limits of our strength and endurance are pushed beyond known limitations. Don’t waste the purpose of these times. This current...