These are certainly days where I am hearing from many of God's people that He is stretching their faith.  It is not that these people are all saying that they ...

Listen to these familiar phrases: “Take a step of faith…” “Make a leap of faith…” “Put one foot in front of the other…” “Every great journey begins with a single ...

Many of us have a large gap in our understanding of what it means to be wholly saved. We know that there was a moment in our past when we placed ...

The biblical blockbuster, ‘Hall of Faith’ in Hebrews chapter eleven is one of my favorite passages in the New Testament.  There we are given a long list of both named ...

Is the Christian faith kinetic or static?  Do our spiritual beliefs move or do they rest in neutral?  Are we animated or passive as the followers of Jesus Christ?  The ...

Talking with a retired friend the other day, I was surprised when he confided in me that he found it extremely difficult to adjust the pace of his mind from ...

What if I suggested that Jesus was not as committed to your need to feel secure as you think He is? What if I told you that He was actually ...

“By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he ...

  “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go: I will guide you with My eye.” – Psalm 32:8 To know that the immeasurable ...

About 3,500 years ago, less than a dozen men determined the next four decades of a massive group of people, possibly over two million in number.  It is highly likely ...

When things are comfortable, safe and manageable, I feel confidently secure.  When circumstances are well-oiled and unobstructed, I easily sense momentum, empowerment and certainty.  During times of human approval, when ...

“Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do...” – 1 Samuel 16:3 Allow me to share a brief word with you about how God is ...

Allow me to provoke you to consider something about the Kingdom today.  Most followers of Jesus are clear concerning our mission as the people of God.  We are called to ...

The story of Gideon in the book of Judges is a really interesting account.  He trickles onto the scene in less-than-impressive fashion, as our first notice of Gideon occurs when ...

“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; He has covered me with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a friend who just received the immeasurably good news that she is cancer-free.  It has been a long journey for her: the terrifying initial diagnosis, prescribed treatments, surgeries, ...

King David is my favorite person in the Old Testament.  A very rare mixture characterizes David’s heart as a man who was both a poet and warrior.  He wrote beautiful ...

A slight irritation began to find me when a friend refused to let me bless him recently.  This is a good guy, a hard-working servant of the Lord.  I became ...

“You are not thinking long enough nor hard enough about this, Jeff.” So came the words from a person whom I trust and love.  His commitment to Christ is unquestionable ...

Sometimes it lodges in pretty deep before we are even aware of it. Somewhat like a blemish that appears on your face overnight while you slept – you wake up ...

Sitting on a bench in a dugout at a softball field twenty years ago, I was caught off guard by a man who look disgusted when he found out that ...

It’s early in a new week and, before the clock and calendar really start to ascend to their dual-dictator thrones, I wanted to share some thoughts while they are fresh.  ...

The voice you listen most often too determines your direction.  The direction you walk in most frequently determines your destination.  The destination at which you arrive becomes your life.  So ...