Now this is truly amazing! People would rather have human authority rule over them than God! That’s what happened when God’s people asked Samuel to appoint a king over them. But Go...
“Okay, Lord, if it only took You six days to create the entire universe, why is it taking so long for You to answer my prayers?” Ever asked that before? Sure you have&helli...
“You Can’t Get There From Here!” As senseless as this may sound, it really does communicate a truth: You can’t get to where you want to go by using the same li...
Thousands being saved; churches overflowing; the sick being healed; the lame walking; powerful leaders converting to Christ; the dead being raised; racial and social barriers torn down; tormented p...
There they were…Adam and Eve, God’s crowning creation, cowering behind trees hiding from their Creator! What happened?! Freedom of choice cost them their innocence, their relatio...
It wasn’t supposed to be like this! Families were supposed to love, protect and care for one another. But Adam turned on his wife and blamed her for his sin. Cain rose up with jealousy and ki...
When Was The Last Time…you felt a warm tear coursing down your face as you were immersed in worshipful music that drew you deeper and deeper into the very presence of the ...
“Day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motion; as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” These were the desperate words of the 18th century Eng...
“I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror!” That was the way Mac Davis sang it in 1980 as he reflected on his life growing up in West Texas. Actual...
Sad to say, many of us will be too busy to read this. Why? Because we work…work…work; hurry…hurry…hurry and worry…worry…worry. Then we get up the nex...
Oh how we love to compare and boast! Yes, I’m talking about us...Christian believers, pastors and church leaders. Somewhere we got the idea that “Bigger really is Better.” We floc...
“Life!” That was the name Adam gave to his wife, the first woman ever created by God. Translated into the English language, her name becomes, “Eve.” It interests me that her...
You’ve heard of the “American Santa Claus God,” haven’t you? Just make a wish-list, pray real hard, be a good boy or girl, give plenty of money to the church and God will gi...
Ever been blindsided before? I’m not talking about the Sandra Bullock movie where the homeless guy becomes famous. “Blindsided” means you got hit unexpectedly by something you cou...
There really are two parallel “universes”…one is Seen and the other is Unseen. These are two separate realities existing side-by-side in your life. Th...
Remember the wonderfully funny Flip Wilson and his 1970’s trademark line…“The Devil Made Me Do It”? His humor hit home in more ways than most of us wanted to a...
Consider, just for a moment, what your life would be like if Christianity isn’t true. What if all the other belief systems of the world are right and you are wrong…and the Easter story...
We thought it would last forever. But after 30 years of fruitful ministry at the same church, the horror of horrors occurred…it all collapsed under our feet! When the dust settled, we found ...
Perfect you say? You know there’s no such thing as a perfect church…yet somewhere in our idealistic minds, we envision the "perfect" pastor with the &quo...
We call it the “Great Recession”…the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Nevertheless, economists agree it pales in comparison to the catastrophic financial failure...
When faced with a grievous, frustrating or intensely complex dilemma, some have a tendency to look up and cry, “Lord, is this some kind of test you're putting me through? Well if it is, I&...
Life is complicated…even without adding the remorse of guilt or the risk of chance. These can paralyze our lives and leave us floundering in despair or fear. In considering these issues, it ...
From childhood we’ve heard, “God said, let there be…” and the world came into existence. We’ve read in the Bible that He “spoke” to people and help...
For us “Baby Boomers,” they’re the last of the WWII Generation. They may have grown old and feeble, but they fought more battles than we can imagine. Dad was the first to go and M...
“Did Jesus ever get sick?” I asked myself as I blew my nose, gulped down antibiotics, knocked back a dose of cough medicine, swallowed the antihistamines and crawled into bed wit...
The horror of the massive earthquake in Haiti is beyond our human capacity to fathom. When we see and hear about the anguish of destroyed cities, mangled bodies, broken lives, mass graves and the s...
Now what, Lord? You said in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me and I will answer you.” And Jesus said in Luke 11:9, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will f...
What should you do if God answered your prayers and gave you another chance in 2010? (No…this isn’t a trick question.) Incredibly, here are three examples of what you absolutely...
Who could forget Clint Eastwood’s 1966 spaghetti western film, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”? The sound track still makes me look for my six-shooter! Well, when you try to star...
So, you failed again? Congratulations…you must be human! We all fail because of…well…more reasons than I can write in this short message. But it’s usually because we're t...
“I’ll be home for Christmas…if only…in…my dreams”…oh man, what a bummer! I’m depressed as it is…now I’m gloomy and hom...
You wouldn’t believe what they did to me! Oh yes I would…because it happens to every human being who has ever lived. They’re called offenses…the stumbli...
“Lord, if You really love me, why do You let bad things happen to me? You’re God, aren’t You… and You know things before they’re going to happen…s...
