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This morning, as I read Exodus 20 and the laws of God, I noticed the first verse in the Lord’s declaration of His commandments, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery” (20:2). I have always gone right past that verse to the...
If we don’t know what’s happening in our world how can we love our neighbor as ourselves?
The borders of nations are beginning to shift. In the shifting the fulfillment of the word of the Lord will be revealed. It will be like looking at a globe sitting atop a desk and then seeing something new rising into our understanding and overcoming the past borders....
Someone asked me how to get started writing. I told them to first create a storage and retrieval system. A place of storage provides a way for you to accumulate what you have written. It also provides a method for future retrieval. Without a storage and retrieval...
You and I have creative potential with our words. We have that potential because we were reborn as God’s children by the breath of the Spirit. We carry the very breath of God. He has assigned our words to be His spiritually reproductive sound on Earth. We use our...
On my way home after a morning of errands and appointments, I noticed a car pull out in front of me with an unsecured box on top of the roof. The box was covered in brown paper. As the car made the turn onto the roadway the box fell off. I stopped to pick it up...
One morning last week, I left my motel room to take a morning walk before I drove on to my next ministry assignment. As I walked up a main street, I passed a strange little side street with an “End” sign at the edge of the pavement. The street was only about 10 feet...
Yesterday, I drove by a series of large shipping docks that lined a deep-water port on the Columbia River near Longview, Washington. Shipments from all over the world had made their way to these docks to be unloaded by Longshoreman and sent to various destinations...
A quote from a book came to my mind today. “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve....
On a recent ministry trip, I was on the road for almost a week. My schedule had me ministering in several locations. Between two of the meetings, I had one night on the road to myself, so I reserved a room in a well-known national motel chain. Driving onto the...
Maybe the hidden blessing at the end of this election cycle will be the sound of the death rattle of false hope. That sound will come with the last exhale of a deception that has been whispered into the ear of the Church hoping we would continue to believe that the...
Maybe the hidden blessing at the end of this election cycle will be the sound of the death rattle of false hope. That sound will come with the last exhale of a deception that has been whispered into the ear of the Church hoping we would continue to believe the...
Early this morning, I was driving northbound on Interstate 5 heading to a meeting in Eugene, Oregon. For the previous two hours of my drive, I was dividing my time between prayer and surfing the AM band for any available radio signal. ...
At the age of 16, I got a job at the local Kinney shoe store as a shoe salesman. We had to wear a coat and tie and look like we actually knew how to measure feet and sell shoes. We used shoehorns and had people place their feet on a little stool with a sloping...
People are becoming distracted from information overload. In the overload, God wants to bring clarity and understanding. It is a standing joke in our home that when I order a Netflix movie and it arrives with subtitles, I am disappointed. When I hit the play button on...