THE PRISON OF UNFORGIVENESS

Unforgiveness will take us to places we don’t want to go. It will also cause us to do things we would never imagine we would do. Our only safe way to live a life of faith when someone wrongs us is to forgive them, even when forgiveness is the last thing we want to do....

THE BOWLS OF OUR PRAYERS

In prayer, I saw an image of bowls in Heaven filled with the prayers of God’s people. Because the prayers were aligned with God’s will, they gave off the fragrance of incense.  Scripture tells us about those bowls. It describes the Lamb of God approaching the...

DISEMPOWERING THE WORKS OF HELL

When Jan and I lived in Billings, Montana, our home bordered an irrigation ditch. I would hike along the ditch several times a week. One day, I felt impressed to veer off the path to look around. As I walked through the sagebrush, I came upon something unusual. I saw...

KNOWING OUR BOUNDARIES

While we are free to live and travel at will, knowing the boundary of our calling is important. To travel outside that boundary must be done with permission from the Lord. Wherever I travel and see a sign denoting a city, county, or state boundary, I pray these words,...

A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

The sources from which we gather our news have changed. It is even evidenced in the church how we gather information about our culture and how to respond to what we see and hear. https://www.facebook.com/1442665059/videos/567723492666464

AN UNAIDED FAITH

There is a saying among Navy Seals, “Under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.” In other words, our basic training is what we will fall back on in an emergency. If our training was not sufficient enough, the false hopes of...