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 ...

Here’s how it works: Saturdays find me as intense as a laser in preparation, Sundays I explode like a bomb in ministry and Mondays I feel like snail on muscle ...

For years, Amy and I have been customers at a dry cleaner which is owned and operated by a very kind family from India.  I remember that this family hand-delivered ...

You are reading a blog posted on a website from a ministry called Transforming Truth.  I spent a large chunk of my former years searching for truth that I could ...

Why do we ask the sovereign, all-wise God to do things for us?  Well, for one, Christians are commanded to pray. We clearly understand Christians cannot glorify God without prayer, ...

There is a slightly humorous saying that I have heard a few times in the last few years of ministry:  “God loves you and people have a great plan for ...

The handle turns, the bucket lowers, the mechanics are all in place but...the bucket keeps coming back up with nothing in it.  This is my season lately when it comes ...

Stifled prayers are the aim of the devil.  He does not mind so much that you think upon Christ or remain aware of your deep need of a touch from ...

The longer one walks with God the easier it is to recognize recurring themes that He addresses in our faith-journey.  Some things come easily to you.  Effortlessly you stride to, ...

Not every day is a good day for you circumstantially.  Nor is every day a bad day for you.  Most of you reading this have lived long enough to discern ...

Those who split hairs in order to prove a point can be irritating.  God made me to be a “headline” thinker and I often find myself surrounded with “fine print” ...

When this time of year finds us it is beneficial to take advantage of the once-a-year occurrence of living directly between a year that was and a year that will ...

We like to hold on to the familiar.  Our preference is to be left comfortable in the place where we excel.  We do not mind observing change but it is ...

Sometimes I forget that none of Scripture is there incidentally nor accidentally.  God gave us His Word and His words – there is divine intentionality behind the granting of the ...

Father, forgive me for always desiring clarification.  Deliver me from my addiction to reassurance, asking You to say again what You have already made clear before.  I see that this ...

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

What a whirlwind Sunday yesterday was with some really great fruit.  The mood at Meadow has really sweetened in the last month or so and I am so grateful to ...

Tedium drives me nuts. Arrogant Christians are a bore.  Knee-jerk, reactionary emotionalism is saddening.  Hostility over the truths of Scripture between those who genuinely love the Lord is one of ...

Hear me loudly and clearly on this: God is for you on a level that you do not understand.  He loves you with a depth that no human on this ...

The location of your faith is crucial.  For some, faith is little more than the desire to keep a positive attitude, the power of optimism, a sense that everything is ...

The last handful of days have been rather sobering.  If you are like many, your priorities have been rearranged and your problems put in perspective.  The things that bothered me ...

Well, we finally got our internet connectivity re-established and I intend to resume my blogging tomorrow.  In the mean time, here's a nugget from Charles Spurgeon for us to consider. ...

For many of us the greatest test of our faith is found in the area of our ability or inability to wait on God's timing.  Delays are rarely seen to ...

Let me take you down a well-worn path in my life.  I used to dread its shadows and hated the fact that there were so many bends & twists upon ...

Dry times have a way of slowly siphoning off our faith and confidence in God.  When the air of life is fresh and the view is exalted and unobstructed, our ...