A Fool’s Dream — A Wise Vision
Lame Excuses
Consider Your Ways
Expect the Unexpected
Grave Dangers - Resurrection Powers
Early in the Morning
Six Steps Away From Blessing
Everything’s Falling Apart!
The Art of Spear Throwing
New Dark Ages
We live in an A-literate culture; a culture where people can read but don't. We are entering, according to Neil Postman, a new Dark Age--a time when people didn't read. An age where manners and morals were at their lowest level. It was a cruel, demoralizing, perverted time in human history—and we are not too far from it again.
Proverbs 1 - Seven Characters
In Proverbs 1 Solomon introduces three main themes: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Correction. These three will then become the framework for the whole book of Proverbs as well as define and shape four primary characters.
Castles in the Air
So many of God’s children wait for perfect or better conditions to walk by faith. However, we are called to seek sanctification in the state in which God has placed us, rather than building castles in the air - wishing for great possible virtue in positions we do not fill.
Broken Bondage
Have you ever wanted something so desperately that it didn’t bring fulfillment when you finally got it? This faded glory or dissatisfaction is one way to determine whether you are idolizing it. Idols might bring temporary pleasure, but once they have your heart, they keep you in bondage - a bondage we must break in order to be free.
Denied Power, Part 2
The majority of the students and leadership simply did not know Christ as their Savior. They had a form of godliness, but they lacked the power of God in their lives—until something happened that none of us would ever forget.
Denied Power, Part 1
I will never forget the time when I was asked to speak to a group of Asian college students. The fact that I was not who they were expecting didn’t help what was about to become a difficult situation.
Rise and Build
It’s one thing to talk about God’s favor and another to experience it. Nehemiah knew that once people started working and experiencing the favor of God for themselves, momentum would become spontaneous. In fact, in Nehemiah chapter 3 we have seven occurrences of spontaneous work that results in this unprecedented accomplishment.
Two-Way Conversation
Psalm 119 is a beautiful depiction of the love that God's children should have for His Word. This Psalm makes it clear that reading and meditating on God's Word has joyous results! Despite any trials you are facing, make certain to be a Word-centered person, taking delight from the Word of God.
Territorial Tyrants
Are you overcome by illness? Does pain or sickness dominate your life and rob you of joy? As a young adult I was sick for thirteen years. . . My illness controlled my life, and I went through bouts of depression and self-pity, yet I never resigned myself to being useless. I wanted to be healed!
Tasting the Miracles
When Jesus turned water into wine at Cana, there was more going on than meets the eye. A closer look at John 2 reveals that the clay pots that Jesus had the servants fill with water were not wine pots—they were water purification pots.
The Raven of Wrath
Last night I went to bed and began to think about a conflict that was still brewing in my heart. Before long I noticed that my body temperature began to rise. The more I thought about the offense the hotter and more bothered I became.