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There's a great deal of deranged thinking taking place both in our culture and within certain parts of the Church. There are reasons for this derangement, chief among them is picking and choosing how we interpret the whole of Scripture to align with our opinion. The...
Yesterday, I asked Jan, "How do you feel about our lives?" Her answer was wise. It was a wisdom built on years of following the Lord. She said, "We will follow Him wherever he leads, no matter what He asks of us. He's the one who has always had our next step...
Of late, people are tossing out the names "Hitler" or "Nazi" at some of the leaders in our nation and toward the people with whom they disagree politically. It is a demeaning and ill-informed practice. It's also the end of a mature conversation. Can you imagine living...
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...
I just took a truckload of debris to the dump. It reminded me of walking through my social media accounts of late. In those accounts are so many varied opinions about so much. After I paid my bill, I was directed to a large disposal center where huge tractors were...
I just checked out our local news cycle. It seems the battles in Israel and the incursion into Gaza are getting less and less attention. It’s not unusual. We need to rise higher in our understanding of what is happening to discern the heart of God. It is always about...
Yesterday, I was looking at the remaining coffee filters sitting in our kitchen drawer. I asked myself, “Where will I be when all of these are gone?” I did the same thing a few weeks ago when I got my recent oil change. Then again with our anticipated annual cleaning...
From time to time we need to top off our faith in spiritual warfare. No matter what we see around us, it’s important to keep our faith alive and functional should the need arrive to engage the enemy of our faith. Training people with a weapon requires that we do...
While there are many things to pray about in your life, keep an eye on Israel. This is a moment like it was for Gideon. Gideon had 22,000 soldiers, but only 300 chose to not drink the water with their heads buried in the water. The 300 drank while watching for the...
Last night, I had a dream. I was walking through my old neighborhood in Los Gatos, California. It was the place where all my childhood remembrances were created. The homes were now desolate and in disrepair. No one was living there. It was like something had moved...
A rise in understanding among those not affiliated with a formal position within a group or a denomination is beginning to surface. These unrecognized ones will help us interpret Scripture. The words of Scripture were written for the common folk. They were not written...
Every situation of life contains redemption. It is in the redemption where we see God's heart and experience the depths of His redemption. When Joseph was tossed into a pit and sold as a slave by his brothers, the Lord knew he would be used as a redeemer. After all...
I asked a person about the church they attend and how they pray. They said they were only teaching the basics of the faith. I asked them how would they pray. There was silence on the other side of the conversation. As believers, we do need to understand what is...