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Navigating what is coming to our world will require that we make a critical choice. What flows from that choice will change everything. It will offer us protection when the world appears to be spinning out of control. No matter how sophisticated we think we might be,...
Yesterday, something happened that if left to a natural course of events would cause concern for me. Before I responded, I went for a walk. While on the walk, I didn’t know how to pray. So, I prayed in the Spirit. Only God knew what I was praying for. By the end of...
Jan and I have made our share of financial mistakes. We have a great deal of compassion for those trapped under the weight of debt. What I am about to share is not meant to come across as a condemnation for someone living under the impact of debt. Early in our...
People have different reactions to the unexplainable events of God. A person can respond with joy, suspicion or outright dismissal. These responses come for a variety of reasons. Something took place several years ago that could create one of those responses as you...
This is a very emotional and adrenaline-driven time in our nation. People are feeling frustrated with the current state of affairs. Every clickbait button on our computer screen, each controversy of faith or culture, foolish, and the foolish and demeaning words...
I watched a video of a motorcycle cop riding his bike through a set of narrowly spaced cones in a riding competition. It was amazing to see his balance, discipline, and timing. He was trained to do these maneuvers. It did not come naturally. When you train to...
From time-to-time, any of us can wander away from the fountain of fresh revelation. We can replace the content of a life-giving message with the stale flow of a substitute – a word generated by our frustration with the current state of gridlock in politics or the...
I have walked up the trail and past the tree depicted in this picture for the last 15 years. On the day I took this photo, I had stopped to catch my breath and noticed the nail in the tree for the first time. It looks like a small sheetrock nail, and from its...
Whenever you see a group of believers marching forward in intellectual lockstep fearful of entertaining a differing opinion, you will find the Holy Spirit has been pushed to the perimeter of their thinking. If we are not careful, the Church can appear to our culture...
God speaks to me in dreams and in the waking state just before rising each day. This morning, I received a...
One of the marks of a spiritually mature person is their ability to live with certainty in a place defined only by a fine line. A spiritually immature person feels the need to live behind thick margins created by a fear-based definition of life. They think distance...
During the first week of each New Year, Jan and I like to do something special together. This year we drove out of town and booked a night at a beautiful hotel. We filled our days with shopping, dining and just enjoying each other’s presence. The hotel where we stayed...
I have noticed there are three directions our lives can move. We can evolve into something more. We can revolve around the status quo, or we can devolve into a lesser expression of ourselves than the one God intended for us to experience. To evolve means I have...
When I got up this morning, I put short ribs in our slow cooker. The short ribs, garlic, salt and pepper, mushrooms, red onions and port wine will work together for the next 8 hours to create an unbelievably delicious meal. The ribs will be served alongside mashed...
If you have ever stood on the seashore when a wave crashed and ran up the beach past your ankles you experienced what can happen when you looked down at your feet as the wave reversed course and rushed back down the beach. You got dizzy and disoriented and felt like...