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For the last several decades of my life, I have realized that our perceived form of human dignity holds up long enough until real and primal evil appears on the doorstep of our home wanting to bring harm and death. At that point, all our arguments and perceived...
In the many plagues God brought upon Egypt, it was not the people of Egypt who were the problem. It was Pharoah. The book of Exodus tells us, “Now the Lord had caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the people of Israel. And Moses was considered a very great man...
Long before compound bows and graphite arrows came into being, the kind of bows with all the pulleys and cables attached, I hunted with either a longbow or recurve bow. Those simple bows were just sticks. They were a single stick of a bow with a string strung between...
Your life has resembled the pre-concert tuning of an orchestra. Each element of your life has been playing different tuning notes out of alignment with the rest of the instruments. That is about to change. You have a rhythm of grace assigned to your life. God is about...
You know negative consequences are coming because of what just happened. A relational wrecking ball has been set in motion and what is about to take place can leave devastating emotional injury. You are wondering how you can duck below the swinging arc of this...
You tried to carry your dream with such care. You began to walk forward in its promise. But in a moment of personal stumbling you dropped it and it shattered at your feet. There is no putting it back together. There are too many broken pieces. As...
You have been living off of memories. This way of living has produced sadness in your heart. You are looking back and not looking forward. You know you need to start living life again because only by engaging and living life can you create new memories.As you...
It is like a scene from a courtroom. The person on the witness stand is saying things about you that are not true. They are not true because they do not reveal the true condition of your heart. The real evidence about what has come into question can...
You have resisted hitting the pause button on your life because you thought that would be unspiritual. You were taught to endure, fight and struggle. Some of this has been righteous, but the majority of these efforts were attempts at a misguided...
We are in a season where what has been invisible will be now be made known. Those who have gone unnoticed even after years of faithful service will become visible as God confirms and performs His word in their lives. As this thought formed in my mind, I saw the...
Be careful to not wrap your significance around what you do for work or ministry. Do not allow your current assignment to become a destination. This way of thinking can produce a lie that says you are finished and have come to the end of the line arriving at a...
You have been sensing God is about to deliver something new. You are like a person expecting an important package to arrive on their doorstep. You jump up at each new sound and run to the door thinking the delivery person has arrived. This is exactly where...
The pane of glass you are looking through has, over time, become smudged and smeared by the challenges of life. You are only seeing life in vague and partial images. You really don’t know what life is supposed to look like anymore. But that is about to...
The way forward you seek is through a doorway that will remain invisible until you step across its threshold in faith. Many have stalled at this point in their journey because they demanded to see the doorway before they were willing to step forward. What you need to...
You are juggling so many things in your life. You believe the survival of what you are juggling depends on you keeping everything airborne and constantly in motion. What if you simply stopped? You are afraid that if you stopped juggling all these things they...