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Where I live in southern Oregon, our valley is filled with smoke from massive forest fires. For days we have endured deteriorating air quality now defined as hazardous. Because the sun has been reduced to an apocalyptic orange glow, it caused me to ponder the words of...
New mandates are being proposed. While choices were made the first time the mandates were instituted, choices based on the available evidence we had at the time, this time around will be different. Local congregations, business owners, and their customers have become...
My wife, Jan, has said on several occasions, "A boomerang of evil is returning." What has been sent out into our world of delusion and deception demanding we agree and comply with its message will return and strike the architects of its message. We are entering a...
The armor is like an ornate gold breastplate with shoulder pads worn by a first century centurion. Inside the armor a child is playing. The contrast is striking – a little child rolling around and laughing inside a protective battle garment designed for someone...
In this last season you have felt like a person trying to haul water while carrying a leaking bucket. All your efforts seem to have drained out onto the pathway of your life. So many things are not working like you planned yet you continue to repeat...
You are about to walk between two opinions. The demand that has been placed upon you to come into agreement with either side of this issue is a work of division and compromise. As you walk farther down this path the opposing parties will assume you are...
This unwarranted criticism has been devastating. The words spoken were harsh and impersonal. Their painful impact has lasted long after the verbal punch was withdrawn. You have defined this criticism as unwarranted and it is unwarranted in a natural sense. ...
You have been on spiritual autopilot for some time. It has felt good to not have to make decisions. You wanted a break from the challenges of life. While this was restful for a little while you are now restless because you are uncomfortable where things are...
The measure of your love is seen most clearly when you can celebrate in another person’s life what you do not possess in your own. Your unhealthy response to loss in your life over personal lack or misfortune can create a demand in those nearest to you to silence...
You feel like the ship of your destiny has sailed without you. You are standing on this dock in despair watching as your ship sails away and disappears into the distant horizon. This image and the feelings of despair are lies birthed in the pit of hell to cause...
When you don’t know the next step, declare the heart of God into the unknown. Declarations of God’s heart will make a way when no way forward is visible. Declarations uttered in faith are like spiritual bulldozers; they have the power to push aside walls of...
In a series of less than perfect life-decisions you ended up taking the wrong road. You made a fateful turn and now you are miles into a regretful decision. The reality of your mistake is hitting you in the face with the full force of its implications. At...
This offense that has so visibly dishonored you will continue to be powerful if you allow it to remain and have a place of influence in your life. There is something you can do. You can remove the power of this offense by blessing the person who hurt you. If you bless...
You fell and this failure hurts. Contact with the hard concrete of personal failure is both bruising and painful. At the moment of your failure you were stunned by the impact and a spiritual concussion took place. Like a physical brain in trauma your capacity to...
You see her weep and you call her “an emotional woman.” You may not say those words out loud, but they are in your heart and guiding your response. You have forgotten that when God created us, and all that surrounds us, He performed that act of creation as both...