If we don’t learn from history, we won’t recognize it when it comes back around. The past has taught us this much: When the church joined with the state, the world was left in darkness.
How do we find peace and rest in a world full of anxiety inducing thoughts and sleepless nights? One sleep deprived night in January helped bring a revelation: For every anxious thought, there is a remedy in the word of God and in the very life and trials of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
The greatest miracles of Christ are not the ones we think they are…they are not raising Lazarus from the grave or multiplying the loaves and fishes…the greatest miracles are changing hearts of stone to hearts of flesh…transforming doubt to belief.
Sometimes there’s a fine line between hope and despair. Despair comes with the territory of our broken world. But hope is supernatural and never disappoints.
The dragon’s greatest deception is to make us believe we are worshiping God when we are really worshiping a counterfeit.
Well, it’s the start of another year, which means another opportunity to make New Year’s resolutions and not keep them. What have years of failed New Year’s resolutions taught me? It’s not about what we decide to do, it’s all about the One we are connected to.
LASIK Surgery, Dry Eyes, and the Laodicean condition. How an experience with dry eyes led to an exploration of the church of Laodieca. We are all born blind. We need the eye salve of heaven to see again.
There is a vast difference between working for love and working from love. The older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son was working for reward. But he should have been working from the love he had for his father. Like him, if we never grasp the real equation: Work from love, not for work love, we’ll never have the correct picture of ourselves, our brothers and sisters, or the Father we claim to serve.
Satan’s most masterful deception is not just covering minds with darkness, but it’s counterfeiting the light, the righteousness of Christ.
Through the season of my restlessness and discontent, I’ve learned the thirst and hunger of life can only be filled when we are fulfilling our God given purpose.
