How to Not get Divorced

This morning God has me praying for relationships. These are trying times when many families are being challenged by financial losses, business closures, illness, child care challenges, and kids that are stressed to their maximum capacity. Here is a truth that I learned in my own life and saw it ring true in thousands of […]

Is the plague from God, or no??

I have seen many cessationists  loudly proclaiming that “Coronavirus is NOT FROM God”. If they have not “heard” this from God the Holy Spirit himself, then they must find support for this in scripture. Scripture which says God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Scripture tells us that around the throne of God the […]

Are you weary and weak?

John21: 15 So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs” In 1 Kings 19, Elijah, hearing the threats of Jezebel, ran into […]

Enter In

#ReadTheWholeBook Reading Jeremiah 30 this morning, which speaks of captivity and freedom, of trouble and destiny.  Of course, it has a historical context in that it was directed to the people of Isreal throught the prophet Jeremiah.  That context is important but so much modern bible teaching on the context and exegesis has created an […]

Sacred Spaces and Liturgy

Already this year I have been to more funerals than in the past two years combined.  Several of those were services for young men who passed long before anyone believed it was their ‘time’. No one wanted to be there, in that space, to  observe these human rituals of grieving.  I know these parents, the […]

Paul stayed in his Lane

I was reminded of the many trials of Paul. He told the Corinthians that he had been shipwrecked three times. Acts 27 tells us of the occasion when he was shipwrecked as a prisoner. He told them not to sail out. As the  trip began to show signs that the voyage was doomed, he again […]

The Prayer movement

Count Zinzendorf was a Moravian. He committed his estate to the formation of a community that would engage in worship and prayer, 24/7. More than 200 missionaries were sent from the community that he established in Germany the 1700’s. His zeal for sending out missionaries was birthed from a meeting a Christian slave. He was […]

How powerful is a Rock

“Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever […]