grace
Spiritually Soothed by Truth & Welcome
Weakened? Forgotten? Seeking to move on from a personal fumble? Exhausted with life, people, barriers and breakdowns? I have earned a Masters Degree in those areas. More than once in ...
Read More A Nearly-15-Year Breakup
I was going through some old files on my hard drive and stumbled across this breakup letter I wrote in 2005. Sometimes I forget how long the process has been ...
Read More Grace, Morals & Legalism
Saved out of a life of intense rebellion, I experienced somewhat of a flip-of-the-switch inside me the moment I surrendered to Jesus. Instantly purged from my life were a whole host ...
Read More The Anchored Heart
I spoke at length last night with a Christian woman who admitted her occasional struggles with whether or not she has truly been saved. This is not a rare conversation ...
Read More Born To Be Pipes, Not Bowls
For years I have used the illustration of the Christian life being that of a pipe and not a bowl. Bowls receive what is poured into them and then hold ...
Read More How To Debate With Accusation
Accusation: “Has anyone seen Jeff’s shackles? I want to put him on spiritual lock-down again.” Justification: “Those shackles are in the bottom of the sea. As far as east is ...
Read More GRACE: Your Voice, God’s Ear
Many of you who follow Transforming Truth's media streams are doing so from a distance. We are blessed to hear from people all over the United States who have been ...
Read More Pinched-Off Pieces of Clay
Our understanding of God's grace should serve to level the playing field which our egos might raise up for our own benefit during the week. Living daily in a culture ...
Read More My Prayer For You Today
May the God whose watchful eye never sleeps, the God of wonders, power and love - May He keep your feet from falling and make your thanks be endless, until ...
Read More God Is Good When We Are Not
A friend recently asked me about the oft-quoted verse about Heaven...that is not actually about Heaven. Paul’s declaration in 1 Corinthians 2:9, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, ...
Read More God Uses Your Mistakes
A recent change for me in ministry has turned out to be a source of blessing and fulfillment. When merged with the Atlanta International House of Prayer, we added a ...
Read More Swapping Limelight For Shade
It is the lifelong need for all of us to embrace what John the Baptizer declared of his own life 2,000 years ago. As his own ministry was fading in ...
Read More Some Things I Know About You
May I share a few simple statements with you that you will be tempted to gloss over because they are, in fact, simple? Let me give them to you anyway ...
Read More Restoring The Fallen
Sometimes the Father will intentionally and repeatedly emphasize a particular theme in your mind and heart. You will find at these times that your thoughts keep circling back to the ...
Read More A Soft Pillow For Anxious Minds
God is bigger than your idea of him. Watch yourself, one of the easiest things to do for us is to unintentionally lose the true identity of God and replace ...
Read More There Is Grace
GRACE ...for when you're not sensing spiritual depth ...for when your body is tired and your mind taxed ...for when your flesh seems greater than your faith ...for when doubt dares your holy confidence to show ...
Read More Swapping Lenses For Better Focus
There are days in life when you arise to find the surprising pleasure that nothing is troubling you. For me, those days are the exception rather than the rule, but ...
Read More True Love Will Not Look Away
It is probably good for me to go ahead and confess that I have been negligent in my ministry concerning one specific book in the Bible: The Song of Solomon. ...
Read More Escaping The Pressure
You have likely wondered at times why you can’t seem to achieve uninterrupted consistency in your Christian walk. Maybe you have experienced highs and lows and have learned over time ...
Read More The Downpour You Want To Get Stuck In
Amy and I were speaking not too long ago about the desire of most women to be pursued by their man. I had made a comment in a recent sermon ...
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 The Hand That Snatched You Steadies You
Hey, Mr Self-Reliant…Psssssttt, Ms. Born-To-Handle-Things…listen up because I have a word for you when the cracks in your capability are starting to appear. We can sometimes fall into the trap ...
Read More The Never-Napping God
What an awesome though today to realize that while my mind shuts down in sleep, as my body rests vulnerable in the night’s darkness, and at the same time that ...
Read More For Anyone Scoring Less Than 100%
Last night at Meadow I shared the chapter in the life of Jacob where the reader witnesses Jacob’s entire family morally imploded in one chapter. Because we tend to read ...
Read More Holding On Versus Being Held
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” ...
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