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Traps have been set in our lives to take us back into a place of bondage. They are designed with specificity to capture our attention and then lead us into a place of deeper temptation. As Moses was instructing the Israelites about how to live in the lands they...
The Lord spoke to Moses at a critical and transitional point in his leadership journey. As Moses was complaining to Him, the Lord said, “That’s enough. Speak of it no more” (Deuteronomy 3:26-17). It was no longer about Moses' disdain for the forever complaining...
For the last few years, I've noticed something happening with greater frequency. Thanksgiving has taken on a lesser position of importance in our nation. While visiting the big box stores it seems Thanksgiving has settled into an almost unnoticed place in the store...
Most people are familiar with the epic battle between David the young shepherd and Goliath the Philistine giant. What many don’t realize is that Goliath had relatives just as big and just a bad as him. I Chronicles 20 describes these other giants: 4 “After this,...
Years ago, when I was a police Field Training Officer (FTO), the first week having an inexperienced rookie riding with you in a squad car was an interesting experience, both for you as the FTO and for the trainee. Each night during that first week I would begin the...
The Changing Props On The World Stage I remember being part of a stage production in high school. I had a small acting part. I played a police detective. That acting role was prophetic of what I would do as a profession later in my life. The...
Recently, I read a response to something I had written on one of my social media accounts. The response was a bit edgy and confronting. When I read the persons comment (I don’t know them), I realized their response revealed a lack of understanding of the...
I remember talking with someone who had been educated in Cultural Anthropology. He described something called, “The God Line”. As a missionary in Africa this man used that culture to define for me what he meant. He said in African culture everything...
Today, I was recalling a sorrowful experience in my life. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding. Time and distance had caused me to lose contact with the other person involved. For multiple decades I carried the sorrow of what happened between...
When I was a young man in my 20’s, I was a police officer. I served for 9 years and then God changed the direction of my life and for the last 34 years, I have been a pastor. Those 9 years deeply impacted my life. To this day, I see life through the lens...
For the last two days, I have been seeing the image of a powerful locomotive radically changing it's direction. The locomotive was heading in one direction down a single and predictable set of tracks and then, in single moment of time, the Lord altered its...
Sometimes, I notice a woman will date a blind man. Not a man blind in a natural sense, but a man who is blind to her spiritual beauty. As an earthly father, God asked me to encourage my daughter, Anna, to not settle for a man who has a lesser of an image of her...
In the natural world a person is considered armed and dangerous only if they are armed. Without a weapon they are not a danger or a threat. The same holds true in a spiritual sense. Our danger to the kingdom of darkness is only present when we understand and...
Before each of us is a window – a frame through which we glimpse our approaching encounter with eternity. The longer we live the closer we move forward toward that window to eventually look through its opening and glimpse the other side to fully see what was only seen...
I live in southern Oregon. Off our coast is something called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This is a seam in the undersea earth structure comprised of two opposing physical forces that are under constant and building pressure. As they continue to...