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Some leaders want to tell us how to live our faith spelling out in detail how we should live. These demands become like spiritual enclosures allowing no variation. They are dominated by people who want to control our faith not allowing any deviation. In Paul’s first...
I had an aunt and uncle who were twins. While fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II, my uncle would faithfully write his sister. One day on a visit to my aunt’s home, she opened a drawer and brought out a letter sent by my uncle while he was in a combat...
We all want to be on the right side of any issue. We want to remain aligned with our preferred affiliation and with those who believe the same way we do. We want this so much that we will do anything to prove that our rightness is God’s will. It is at that point that...
I'm guessing I kiss or hug Jan at least 10 times a day. Our love involves a continuous intimate physical encounter. Jesus did not come as a vaporous spirit. He came to incarnate a physical representation of God's love. Don't settle for a stale and unfeeling form...
I walked out into our front yard and saw the remnant of a major snowstorm that hit our area last week. The storm was so severe and impacting that the governor of Oregon declared parts of western Oregon a disaster area. Tens of thousands of people were left without...
Every intersection of life has a word from the Lord in place that will function as a traffic signal. As you approach these intersections read the signals carefully and wisely. Some have sped through these intersections without wisdom and their assumptions...
Perhaps it's because I am writing this on Sunday evening knowing Monday is coming that I sense a somber, tender sorrow of sorts. Monday is that day when the routine of life is re-engaged, again. These routines become so circular and repetitive that we can forget where...
Life is a collection of journeys, not just a single trip. Each journey has a measure of faith assigned to it that we are to ask God to release. Without this measure of faith, we will process the journey only with natural sight and without assurance for those parts of...
You might call it a doorway, a portal, a threshold, or an access point. In whatever way you choose to describe it – step through this narrowing point in your journey. God will not leave you hanging. He has been waiting for you to step forward so He could align your...
This morning, I sat down in my writing chair a bit earlier than normal. I had a direction for what I planned to write today, but then the Lord changed that direction. As I sat in the early morning stillness, an image developed before me of wax figures. They appeared...
Years ago, I was on a long, cross-country flight across America. For the duration of the flight, I sat next to a film producer who created television ads for Nissan. As we talked about her assignment and how she creates ads, she made a comment, “You are what you...
Jan and I had to renew our passports. The new passports arrived in the mail this week. As I pondered our passports, I heard the Lord speak a word for some of you (and for Jan and me). He said, “It is time to renew your spiritual passport. I have places to take you –...
Jesus did not minister to the side effects of sin and human brokenness. He pressed through the surface manifestations and went straight to the heart of an issue. Those listening and watching these revelatory events were unaware that something deeper was at play. Jesus...
Some prophetic voices are warning us of a coming civil war in America. That civil war will not start sometime in the future. It is here now. It's not a war of bullets and bombs. It is social, political and moral combat taking place right before our eyes. We can see...
The negative and demeaning conversations that take place behind your back and outside your presence are typically based on assumption and misinformation. These conversations are called gossip. Do not align your concern with an attempt to correct these sad...