It’s an old human story, and it keeps repeating itself. We don’t like trouble! We’ll do anything we can to get out of it. We don’t like negative consequences—who does? So we run away from discomfort. I’ve rarely met a man or woman who says, “I’m in a mess, I'm in...
Have you ever felt like your life is just so hard? Maybe it’s just the way you feel today, or maybe it’s been a “hard” season. What can you do in these hard times? I know, I know … You would just like the Lord to sweep this away. Wouldn’t a miracle be a good thing...
We are getting older! Every one of us reading this is aging. You can’t stop it, can’t postpone it. No amount of vitamins will prevent you from getting older. Taking care of yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually will definitely improve the quality of your life...
There may not be any connection between your religious affiliation and what you worship. To tag yourself as Christian means very little in our time. In many places, it implies nothing at all. To identify yourself with churchgoers may not prove anything about what you...
Jesus was once approached by a rich young man with this question: “What good thing can I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus listed the common commandments that all Jews knew. The young man replied, possibly with some smugness, “I have done all of this!” as if to show...
How do we succeed in life and ministry? Before we answer that, let’s define success as simply “achievement” and leave the description of that achievement up to you. Success is a process that takes place over a period of time, and like failure, is never confined to one...
I am not bragging! I’m simply stating a fact. The reason I write about this today is to encourage you with my positive fasting experience. Fasting was taught and followed by the New Testament church—often for extended periods of time. Recently, I felt led to “water...
On December 31, I wrote the following: The last day of the year 2021 is over. The world has now been struggling for two years with this pandemic and it appears that we are heading into another year of COVID…as we sigh, we wonder, will the world ever be as before?...
Few people understand what the church is all about and church life. Because they have no clue regarding the purpose of the church, they usually have no idea why a personal pastor is so important to spiritual health. This is the number one reason why so many believers...
We live in a world that is fallen and under the rulership of the evil one, Lucifer. Evil is ever-present. It always has been. It is all around us. It influences us. And at times evil is within us because we live in a human body and a fallen world. The word evil is...