Living With Both Eyes Opened
The Bible does an amazing job at balancing the human experience with a divine dosage of reality. Perhaps one of the easiest ways to bring harm to the cause of Christ is for us to upset this balance by a one-eyed reading of Scripture. Let me explain: God’s word is constantly revealing both the negative…
Worshiping Christ…Or Christianity?
Perhaps there will be empty seats in your church today because, for too long a time, our worship gatherings have been more about Christianity than Christ Himself. With all of the emphasis on the -isms, –osophies and –ologies that are connected to the message of the Church, it would seem that many have given up on…
So You Want To Be Free…
A decade is far too long a time to be locked up. From 1984 to 1994 I spent every single day – morning/noon/night – incarcerated. During those years I went to school, attended raucous parties, traveled in and out of my home state of Georgia, earned a living, took vacations and poured my life into…
Scorched Places & Soul Deserts
I know what it is to live in dryness. Days spent in a baked-earth reality have been my personal Christian experience more often than I care to admit. Beyond the fact that it is embarrassing, I have a strong sense that it is simply wrong. It is wrong for an individual who has been totally…
3 Calls On A Monday
So often on Monday mornings our heads are a blur. The weekend flashes past us and a new week of duties finds us before we really feel like we got to catch our breath from the previous week. Life can be hurried and I find that no other day of the week feels more jumbled…
10 Helpful Hints To Grow In Your Gossiping
I wanted to take a rare moment to give a shout-out to all of you gossips out there. I’m always writing to a presumed audience of people who love Jesus, love His church and love setting a righteous example of unity in the eyes of non-believers. But not today – today I am writing to…
People Who Have Nothing To Offer You
If there is one activity the enemy will fight in your life it is the intentional calling out to God to come to your aid. Satan is not afraid of our church buildings, our colored lights, our polished eloquence, our social programs or our church-lobby donations kiosk. Hell will encourage us in much of what…
Intentionally Organic
On Monday of this week we began 40 days of prayer with the people of the church I pastor. On purpose, we have stripped away any and all of the normal fanfare that accompany our regularly scheduled services. No announcements, no lights, no projectors or graphics and very little singing. We haven’t publicized it much, other…
The Arrhythmia Of America’s Heart
Today was a very heavy day for many of us in the United States of America. Another definitive step further out of the will of God has been taken by those appointed to render judgment in the highest human court we regard in this republic. I am on a short ministry sabbatical and am trying not…
Summer Break
That wonderful time of year has found me as I step away from ministry duties for a couple of weeks in order to gain some refreshment for my body, mind and soul. My blogging will take the hiatus along with me so please excuse the lack of writing between now and the early part of…