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Having served the Lord for many years, I've come to realize there is a single element in life that has remained constant in all those years – change. Change is not in the product itself but in the delivery systems used to bring a product to us. I remember when the...
In a dream, I was waiting in line to enter a room. When I entered the room, I was told we had assigned seats. I began to search for my seat and finally found it and sat down. All of us were waiting for our turn to speak. I didn't know any of the people who were...
Unless one is living in complete isolation from reality, something is afoot in the nations of the world. We see radical elements being imported into university campuses taking emotional control of discontented students causing them to occupy their campus and restrict...
Albania was one of the most isolated and inaccessible nations in Eastern Europe during the years of Communist oppression. When the borders finally opened an outside world stepped across its border to discover a culture trapped in time. On my first visit to Albania, a...
I grew up in a construction family. My father built houses. Most of my summers were spent on the end of a shovel. My brother and I were human backhoes. Many times our father would say, “Give me a ditch three feet deep from here to the house. See you at lunch.” It was...
It has been two weeks since my dog died. Abby was an Australian Shepherd who lived as a member of our family for 15 wonderful years from puppyhood to her dying day. She was a good friend. For all 15 years of her life, Abby went in and out of her doggie door to...
When I was in the 7th grade, I played the clarinet in our junior high school marching band. I started playing the clarinet in the 5th grade, so I was not an expert. Our band was scheduled to march in a yearly parade in my hometown. One day, about two months before the...
As children, our imaginations were very vivid and creative. Children live in a world of mental imagery. We took journeys in our minds and created new worlds. A vivid imagination was one of the joys of childhood. Somewhere along the path of life, we were told to stop...
I was looking at a photo of one of my nieces. She is a beautiful young lady. As I looked at her picture, I saw the eyes of my mother staring back at me. The DNA of a family line is strong. What is even stronger is our spiritual DNA. Our spiritual DNA does...
The most significant piece of advice I ever received on how to preach, and for that matter, how to handle most of life, was given to me by my pastor, Roy Hicks. Jr. He said when you prepare to preach you are not yet ready until you can answer three questions. 1....
The announcement of the United States Embassy being relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has become a spiritual starter gun signaling the start of an unprecedented unfolding and coalescing of events on the world stage. A global transformation is about to move...
I visited the old Soviet Union when it was known as the USSR. At that time, the USSR still carried many of the old Cold War images we associate with Communism. I was traveling as a guest of a large travel agency who invited a group of us to see the nation and...
One of my childhood dreams was to learn to fly. As a young 20-something, I began working in a job that afforded me enough extra income to start taking lessons toward the goal of obtaining a Private Pilot’s license. After 10 hours of dual instruction, I felt I was...
In some cases, we have made following Jesus too complicated. We need to find a way to return to a simplicity that will invite everyone to the table of effective service, not just those who have "gone into the ministry". Paul said the evidence that a believer has been...
As a little boy, I usually slept like a rock. But one winter night I woke up and walked into the living room. I was about 6 or 7 years old. My stirring also awakened my father. While standing in front of our fireplace staring at the remaining embers of a fire from the...