I once spent around six years struggling in a particular area of my life and ministry.  Hear me clearly: this struggle was not a mild irritation, an uncomfortable, occasional sense ...

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 ...

"...and You brought them into the land that You had told their fathers to enter and possess. So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and You subdued before ...

After being off of work and out of the office for several days, I woke up with the itch to post something on the TT blog today. I'm going to ...

What if I told you that you that it is essential for the good of your soul for you to experience some trouble. As a matter of fact, without some ...

It was 1974, and I was a child in an intimidating lobby of a doctor's office.  Though so long ago, I can clearly remember standing in front of a fish ...

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. ...

The journey of the Christian is a journey of faith. We begin our relationship with the invisible God by faith. By faith, we bow before a King who is alive ...

Is your God demanding or delightful?  Involved or indifferent?  When you sense His countenance is it stern or smiling?  If someone told you that His hand is moving toward you, ...

Father, help us to joyfully embrace and seek after new things from You.  Give us enlightenment to what You have placed in Your word about how You love to give us ...

Occasionally we just need something poured into us. Life can often feel like a high powered-vacuum cleaner that is sucking everything out of you down to the very last grain ...

I'm keeping it somewhat short and potentially sweet today. I want to submit some scriptural taffy for us to chew on this morning from the life of that unlikely Old ...

God is always moving us toward something. We rarely pause long to consider this but the core of God’s desire for us has a trajectory, a forward moving direction. We ...

In my last post, I shared from the Apostle Paul’s words to the young pastor, timothy, concerning Timothy’s need to rise above some of the stereotypical pitfalls of young people, ...

Finishing up this three-installment blog series today, I want to ask you a very simple question: do you believe in your heart that God is for you, that He wants ...

Occasionally I have to conclude that God is purposefully endeavoring to get His point across to me.  It is likely that He works this way in your life also from ...

It is not that we are ignorant.  It is not that we are uneducated.  It is not for a lack of information or opportunity or access to knowledge.  No, if ...

For some reading today, it's been a long while since God made things clear to you.  My dad has told me more than once that people love to fully understand ...

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. ...

Looking out on the people who gathered at yesterday, as I was preaching, I could not suppress my active awareness that there were close to a dozen people who stood ...

In 2016 most of us were made aware of something called The Mannequin Challenge. It is a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a moving ...

You likely would not be reading these words in on this website if you did not have some degree of faith in Jesus.  Faith is a response to God's gracious ...

There will be many surprises awaiting us in Heaven.  Our little minds – even the most creative among us – hold no ability to foresee what God has prepared for ...

Like a muscle, Faith must be stretched before it can be exercised.  Faith must be exercised before it is grown and built.  Nobody becomes spiritually stronger until their faith is ...

One of the amazing aspects of the bible is that it is timeless in its central themes.  Though the cultures of the human authors in scripture were different from our ...