Salvation
Jesus: Picture the Moment of His Birth
Two thousand years ago, here is a little of what was happening in Heaven and on Earth: God the Father declared in Heaven that the fullness of time on ...
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 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 The Salted Slug in the Church
“No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” - Luke 13:3 Jesus wrapped volcanic words like those above in a blanket of love, sensing no ...
Read More His Extreme Cross
The Cross of Jesus Christ: There has been no greater display of mankind's sin. There has been no sicker revelation of Satan's evil. There has been no clearer manifestation ...
Read More Billy Graham’s Heaven
Billy Graham, the greatest evangelist America has ever produced, passed away last evening. His ministry focused nearly exclusively in revealing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in its simplest form. He ...
Read More Where We Rest
“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” – Luke 23:34 Man’s worst moment had arrived. Roman spikes had been driven through the ...
Read More Christmas Desire
Jesus was born once upon on earth that we might be born twice for Heaven. Jesus was announced by angelic heralds so that we might learn the value of proclaiming ...
Read More Knowing My Place
"Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great, for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be ...
Read More Banished Shame, Evicted Fear
Most of you well-know the account of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Growing up in America we have been exposed to the facts of the Gospel, especially here in the ...
Read More Blessed To Be In The Sequel
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 ...
Read More My Song – 20 Years Ago Tomorrow
Charles wesley wrote this song in 1739 (I think). It conveys a truth that became my personal experience and ongoing reality on August 4th, 1994. I weep just about every ...
Read More “God Ain’t Never Done Nothin’ For Me…”
I've heard it more than once and there is a high likelihood that these words might have escaped my own lips during my lost years. It is the confession of ...
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 Smoking Primate Evangelist: A True Story
It was the hottest day of our time in Africa during our mission late last year. Part of the morning had involved me preaching a couple of times to more ...
Read More 19 Years & Counting
As I knelt down this morning for some time before the Lord, it occurred to me that 19 years ago today, on the other side of this very same city ...
Read More No Grandchildren
There was a day in Israel’s history when a second-grader was made their king. No, seriously...a second-grade boy wore a crown and inherited a throne. I have two children, both ...
Read More Testimony Of The Unchained
The song below says most of what I want to say in today's post but, as you listen to Tasha Cobbs hammer it home, I want to tell you ...
Read More A Trip To See Brother Johnson
In 1991 I used to see this fellow, a little younger than I was, pushing a mail cart around the halls of the financial services company where I worked. He ...
Read More The Rumor Is Absolutely True
You are not good enough. You are not educated enough. You are not experienced enough, skilled enough, or holy enough. It's not found in the depth of your prayer life ...
Read More Back & Forth Across The Line
Occasionally God just has to show us His greatness. Every now and again we forget His glory, His awe, His power and it is then that we cease to appropriately ...
Read More A Reason To Boast
It's not about me although it involved me. It didn't originate in my heart or mind though it led to ongoing radical transformation of both. Certainly it wasn't deserved by ...
Read More Two Things We Don’t Always Believe
From about the age of fourteen to the age of twenty-four I was on a quest. Looking for something solid to believe in, I spent those years dabbling in anything ...
Read More Who Lied To You And Told You That You Were In Control?
The thing that is bigger than you controls you. You are aware that you are not the largest, strongest, prettiest, smartest, holiest, deepest, most lasting, most powerful or most successful. ...
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