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As I read the words of David, it felt like he was writing about the time in which we now live. David said, as troubles in his life increased, “I trust in the Lord for protection” (Psalm 11:1). That was the foundation of David’s peace in the surrounding turmoil. He...
For the last few months, the Lord has challenged Jan and me to address our assumptions and compromises. We have been invited by the Lord to repent and adjust our lives in a more focused way to align our hearts with Him. We know these adjustments are happening in...
I've heard self-overconfident statements of personal bravado being spoken and used in an attempt to convince people of the unfailing nature of a person's faith. The truth is none of us know how we will respond when a real test of our faith comes and our life is in...
I saw a recent interchange on a social media account where people were condemning a nationally recognized pastor about the style and substance of his ministry. The condemning volleys were fired from the misinformed distance provided to the accusers by a Google search...
When you pray for a generation make sure you are praying with the understanding that a generation means all who are alive at this moment. It’s not about old, young or in-between. When you relegate a problem to a generation based solely on a person's age you remove...
A storm of historic proportions is approaching the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Irma was birthed off the west coast of Africa and has been generating increasing intensity at levels not normally seen. It is estimated Irma could make...
Recently, I read a profound statement from my friend, Markie Braly who experienced a miraculous healing earlier in the year. The active and vibrant life of this young wife and mother had taken an unexpected turn for the worse. Markie contracted a debilitating disease...
A supernatural cross-examination is coming. What has been put before your eyes as truth is about to be challenged by the court of Heaven. Don’t believe the first testimony about anything. God will have the final say in all things. “In a lawsuit, the first to speak...
The older I become the more my years both past and those yet to come hang like wind chimes waiting for me to pass by. I am the breeze they anticipate my passage a billowing against their calendared surface moving, making the music of life, ...
There are two groups of first responders in a time of crisis. One group saves lives no matter who is suffering. Their primary goal is to give the gift of unconditional love. The second group speaks and acts from an undisciplined personal bias without regards to the...
Have you noticed the increasing level of judgmental commentary flooding your social media accounts and your television screen in the middle of a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey? If the natural disaster doesn’t kill you then the stones of judgment offered by...
When we are personally under attack it is too easy to circle our wagons in fear and stop moving forward in faith. The term, “Circle the wagons!” was a command issued by wagon masters in real life and later dramatically depicted in western movies when a wagon train...
The words we write and speak are like artillery rounds that strike the shoreline of a human heart. Communication in any form, verbal or written, is like a pre-invasion artillery barrage that a navy will use to pound a hardened and fortified shoreline just before...
As a young pastor, I listened to a wise older pastor who once said, "Let God be the one who makes a way for you." He was talking about a self-promotion that comes when we feel our calling is not moving along fast enough. In our insecurity, we think we can jumpstart...
Along the ridgeline above me, I saw the remains of an old barbwire fence. Only a few of the posts survived. Those that did were pockmarked with holes the work of decay and weather. On the north-facing side of a solitary post grew a layer of green moss. Tacked to the...