No matter how mature we are in our faith, if we want to experience the wonder of our God we must accept that He is infinitely greater than all that is familiar to us. We must learn to imagine surprise. We must believe He wants to take us to places we have never been, seen… Read More »
What Is Your Ministry?
What is your ministry? Not so fast. I am not talking about the ministry that is on the back of the church program, or the organization you are part of. Your ministry is distinct from any position you may hold. It is the spiritual effect God has given you – and every Christian has one.… Read More »
A Most Popular Promise
It is unlikely that anyone who has been a believer for a while has not heard someone quote or pray the verse in Hebrews 13:5 “I will never leave you or forsake you.” There are reasons that particular verse is so popular. First, we’ve all had people leave us and/or forsake us. Some left us… Read More »
Young People Leaving the Church
When I think about the dismal statistics about young people “leaving the church” I am reminded today that I was one of those statistics. When I went away to college I abandoned going to church. I didn’t renounce my faith per se, but I certainly wasn’t living it. And still God reached me. Not through… Read More »
“Bring It”
“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Bring them here to me,” he said (Matthew 14:17-18). And that pretty much sums up the Lord’s instruction to us about every area in our lives and every situation we encounter.
“Opting Up Not Out”
“Help, GOD—the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!” (Psalm 130:1, The Message Version). If you feel like the bottom has fallen out, still there is hope, which means, of course, for all conditions less than “bottom” there is also hope. All of us have a reading on the “problem-ometer,” some… Read More »
What’s the Big Idea?
We imagine we have big ideas and big plans for our lives but no matter how grand they are in our estimation, in reality they are small in comparison to what God has in mind for us. His plans include not only what we will do outwardly but what we will become inwardly and beyond that, who… Read More »
Back in the day?
Touched this morning by the mournful but beautiful sounds of the classic gospel singing group, The Winans, pleading in song for the simple “days of yea and nay when we could plainly see the way.” When we knew our place. When we knew what was right and what was wrong. But now, “caught in the… Read More »
A Lesson from the Stars
Jean Harlow died today. Grand gal. Those words were written by Spencer Tracy in his diary on June 7, 1937. Harlow was only 26 years old. Tracy himself died on June 10, 1967. He was 67 years old. Last night I watched a special on him, recorded a few years ago and narrated by Katharine… Read More »
Better Than the Richest of Foods
As the smells emanating from a restaurant draw us into the restaurant, so all the things we enjoy are but the aroma of our Creator and are intended to draw us to Him. As it makes no sense to leave a restaurant to pursue the smells outside, neither does it make sense to pursue the… Read More »
