Curses
It was just unexpected. After living in this small Midwestern town for a few years, I had nearly forgotten the perpetual state of...
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- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
Fueling the longing in our souls
Can you get beyond the pleasure-seeking to unearth your heart’s motive which is beneath?
- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
Fighting the battle within
The desires that wage war among the parts of our bodies are like soldiers attacking their own in friendly fire.
- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
In the weeds
When you feel that tugging on your soul... would you ask God what need He’s revealing? It may be just our need in the weeds.
- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
Untamed
Do words ever come out of your mouth, and after – sometimes immediately after – you think, ‘I should not have said that…’? Sometimes our...
- Aug 12, 2019
- 1 min
Which way are you going to take?
OK, so I was geeking out. Looking back on the myriad choices I’ve made, and the wonder of God speaking during all those, you quickly come...
- Jul 8, 2019
- 1 min
Finding freedom
We evoke the battle for the rights of all men and women not to be subject to the tyranny or prejudice of the powerful in society
- Jul 1, 2019
- 2 min
Worthless or worthy?
What we say indicates to anyone listening what is important to us. After witnessing what could have been a tragic accident a few years...
- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
Stop ruining your case
when we say something stupid ...it can ruin what we were trying to accomplish. 'Stupid’ swamps whatever point we were trying to make.
- Jun 24, 2019
- 1 min
You're kidding yourself
“But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” (James 1:22ESV) ‘Hearers’ say one thing then do another. Post...
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
More freedom or more laws?
Folks are put on sides (whether we like it or not) and the debate rages, caricatured these days by people who want the state to take your...
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
Did you hear the stupid thing he said this time?
How often do I say something stupid or just inaccurate? Even well-intentioned ideas can reveal where I am uninformed, unaware of a...
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
Angry
I understand when you get angry. (Believe me, I do.) You have plenty of reason to be. But in that, there's an infinite ocean of mercy to tap
- Jun 10, 2019
- 1 min
All good
When we see evil in the world, when we experience the evil welling up in ourselves or drawing us towards temptation, that’s not God.
- Jun 10, 2019
- 2 min
Live-fire training
All of life is training under fire. We can be led either to fail through temptation, or to perseverance and strength.
- Jun 10, 2019
- 2 min
Getting carried away
Even things that are good in and of themselves, if we get carried away, become evil.
- May 20, 2019
- 1 min
Scorched
These things are meant to point us to greater truths about our lives, how sometimes we pride ourselves on transient things.
- May 20, 2019
- 2 min
Tested
It’s not that disparity is necessarily wrong or evil, but the heart attitude we draw from our circumstances can become temptations for us
- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
Can I have some money to buy you a present?
The end of a life patterned after God is giving our lives and what we make of them back to Him
- May 13, 2019
- 2 min
Without finding fault
So, how bad do things have to get - before we ask God for help? and do we put all that human baggage in front of Him in our minds?