So, if one proclaims to believe something, yet his actions contradict this belief, is he a hypocrite or is he really displaying a true “disbelief”?In Luke 18 a rich young man of influence asks what he must “do” in order to be saved.  Jesus lists the commandments which guard the flesh.  The man responded favorably, […]

Music is powerful, it reaches to deep places, invokes deep emotion.  Songs reflect what our own voice would cry if it could.  But can a simple song change your life?  It can.  If that song settles in your soul and it is birthed into prayer, rising like a fragrant offering before the LORD, then it can… I […]

She refuses to give up, even when she wants to. Hopeless fixer? Maybe, but maybe she sees beyond the way things seem. She longs for an eternal perspective.  She is stubborn, refusing to accept that things will not change, even when she’s faced with the “facts”. God is Redeemer, she must remember to get out […]

Under bitter circumstances I met her.  Life as she knew it was being drained away yet she had what I like to call the “freaky peace” – you know, the Philippians 4 peace, the peace that surpasses all human understanding.  The fact that she was barely into adulthood only spoke more loudly of God’s grace […]

Who do you serve? You may reply “I don’t SERVE anyone” I live in America and I am free…  Whether you know it or not you serve someone, whether you like it or not you are a slave. Now, before you start pounding out a political correction on your keyboard, bear with me. It might […]

Until we are filled with the Spirit of The Living God, until we let His Great and Sacrificial Love fill our hearts to the brim, we grasp and wail at the insufficiency of mere human love. It was never intended for broken, imperfect love to satisfy our eternal longing souls. As long as we insist […]