I’m going to review some fairly controversial topics today. If you have trouble with God moving outside your comfort zone, you may not want ...

I have to say that this year’s Christmas was something special. I was sitting in my “Papa Chair” with generations of my family scattered aro...

I've been reflecting on Hebrews 1, which tells us that Jesus is the best representation of God's nature we're ever going to get....

This story has been bugging me: Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are t...

“ But he who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation and comfort to men.” - 1Corinthians 14:3 I’ve been chewing on this one for several m...

I was praying recently about a man who has shown himself to be untrustworthy and whose efforts to control the world around him have caused a...

Somebody asked me recently about whether if a prophet speaks of a trouble, are they a prophet of God or a prophet of doom? “It worries me,” ...

It seems that the history of mankind can be described as a rush from one extreme position to another, like a pendulum gone. We’re doing it a...

I’ve been thinking about something. Sometimes when I need to think (“meditate”) on a topic or a verse, it helps me to do it “out loud.” Some...

One of the more challenging skills in the age of social media is listening. Listening is more than reading or hearing their words. It’s not ...

Oh my. God's using my cat to teach me a lesson again. Awkward. Our cat gets a healthy breakfast. Then she gets lunch at 1:30 or 2:00. (S...

It seems that God has always been about sharing power. The first thing he said to the freshly-created Adam & Eve was sharing power: “Be ...

I’ve been reflecting on Baalam son of Beor recently (Numbers 22 – 24 , I believe). Balaam was known as a prophet whose words carried power (...

I've been thinking about this recently. I’m reflecting on the reality that God is motivated by love. I mean if “God is love,” then he’s ...

“Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accor...

Is all worship equally precious to God? That question challenges me quite a lot. They stretch me. And I think I see a trap in it. It seems t...

One of our practices, while milady & I were raising our kids, was to have a “date night” every week, so we engaged a young lady from our...