emotions
A Runway For Monday
It is no secret that I am not overly fond of Mondays. I apologize if that disappoints you, but I have never liked Mondays. Thanks to The Bangles 1986 hit, ...
Read More Enduring The Shadowed Season
I love to do biographical studies of the people we find on the pages of our Bibles. There is something about intentionally focusing on an entire life of someone whom ...
Read More Shorelines: Personal Encounter With God
Over the years, I have been asked more than once why and how I went from being a solely expositional, theological church leader to one who believes and practices the ...
Read More God & Your Emotions – Part II
In 2011, my family experienced an unexpected, unpreventable catastrophe. When my wife, Amy, and her mom were on their way back to our house from picking up my birthday cake, ...
Read More God & Your Emotions
One of the amazing characteristics of the Bible is that its revelation is presented to us in transparency when it comes to the faults of the people on its pages. ...
Read More No-Fret Zone
Sometimes it lodges in pretty deep before we are even aware of it. Somewhat like a blemish that appears on the face overnight while we sleep – we wake up ...
Read More Invited To Dance
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” – Romans ...
Read More Emotional Resurrection
In my previous post, I addressed the reality of the Christian’s periodic valley-like experiences. In that season we can experience one or more of the following undesirable realities: 1) dryness ...
Read More For When You Have Been Wronged
Every now and then, 10 minutes in the bible will wreck me for about an hour. Sometimes it makes me wish I had not even opened that sacred book at ...
Read More Over It: Away With The Idea Of A Sissified Savior
So I got some folks perturbed with me this week when I made a couple of statements about my support of having armed security at churches. I was informed that ...
Read More Surge or Substance?
You don't always feel your faith, do you? The strength that God has given you - there's not a constant sense of it being there each moment of every day. ...
Read More The Place Christians Don’t Talk About
There exists a place that Christians don't often speak of. This place is unpleasant and, in the history of the Church, nobody has ever requested to go there. But most ...
Read More No-Staggering Zone
The weekend ends. Your freedom is replaced with duty and responsibility. Traffic is once again your enemy, and your next opportunity to avoid all your have-to's is approximately five days away. ...
Read More A Prayer For The Sorrowful
The Puritan prayer handbook, The Valley of Vision, is a treasure in my personal library. Receiving some heartbreaking news this week, I took comfort from these words from that precious ...
Read More Refusing Carry-On’s
In a very simple illustration during Sunday's message, Father gave breakthrough to many people. I should not be surprised because the moment in the message was basically a last minute ...
Read More A Dumb Husband & The Attentive God
There are a lot of things wrong with our country today but I would like to take a moment and highlight something that is wise, good and profitable with the ...
Read More “Fear Not!”…Great Advice For Us All
"The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth ...
Read More God Above You & Those Around You
Here’s a risky confession for a pastor: I've found myself very recently spending much of my times of prayer calling out to my God as I ask Him where He ...
Read More Delayed Disclosure – What Are You Doing, God?
Speaking with an elderly lady in the midst of suffering, I hung up the phone yesterday after spending some time wanting to identify with her in her pain. I've learned ...
Read More Dealing With Disarray
Our minds cloud easily. Clutter enters one worthless piece at a time and, before long, our thoughts are in disarray. Somewhere along the line our emotions become tangled up in ...
Read More We Have What We Need
The week is not yet halfway through and I've been welcomed into the lives of a handful of friends who are groaning with burdens: two of my sisters in Christ ...
Read More Anticipating Your Own Personal Tsunami?
How many days have you spent with fear, dread or anxiety? I've come to the conclusion that some level of one of those negative forces haunts me for a portion ...
Read More Stop Knitting Your Own Noose
How would you classify your conscience? Some posses a sensitive conscience which pierces them quickly and deeply each time they transgress. Others among us have a dulled conscience which has ...
Read More Assistace With Your Faith-Struggle
Perhaps one of the most uncomfortable occasions in a Christian's life is to come to the conclusion that your faith is much smaller than it should be. Usually this moment ...
Read More Making Pain Work For You
There is one thing that you must accept in this life. Pain, heartbreak and tragedy will touch you at some point. We are not afforded permanent insulation from the undesirable ...
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