When is the last time life threw you a curve ball, you know something came up from left field and left you flat-footed, unprepared, and frustrated? Well hopefully after reading this blog, the last time will be the last time. Ok here goes…. When your gas...
Evangelism, is a word that scares many Christians. They don’t know how to start the conversation, they are afraid of rejection, they feel unqualified, they may feel like they are imposing on the person, and on it goes. Evangelism has taken on many forms over the...
The warm summer sun, a comfortable chair on the porch or patio, a cold beverage of your choice in one hand and a good book in the other, that’s what I call a fun afternoon. But with all of the thousands and thousands of books...
Oh No! That Wasn’t My Axe (2 Kings 6:1-7) This is such a simple story with such a profound lesson. Elisha the prophet that succeeded Elijah had started a “school of the prophets”but they were growing at such an alarming rate they were running out of...
Allow me to begin this blog by talking to you about how mentally healthy my years of motorcycle riding has been for me. The following is the signature at the bottom of my emails…. Chrome and asphalt put distance between me and whatever the world can...
The Bible tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, skillfully wrought from the depths of the earth. Therefore all the things He has put inside you give direction to His purpose for you on the earth. Every person has worth and every person...
Before I tell you of my love affair with coffee allow me to give you a bit of history of this dark brew that captured me as a young boy. Let me take you back to Ethiopia in the year 850 AD. A young goat herder...
It is always a daunting task to write on the “Spiritual Disciplines”, so much has been written over the years that challenge the Christian to knowing God better through the avenue of a disciplined spiritual walk with God. Allow me to begin with a Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:6-8...
If you live long enough you will spend some time in the valley, St John of the Cross coined the phrase “The Dark Night of the Soul” to describe this valley/desert experience. You know when the bottom drops out and your world collapses, when the...
Communion, the Eucharist, The table, The Lord’s Supper, whatever you call it, it is a feast of the body and blood of Jesus Christ. When you ingest the bread and wine, you are receiving the mystery of the ages, you are partaking of healing, strength...
Many Christians are casual readers of the Bible satisfied to glance over the scriptures, you know peruse it, give it a cursory reading. While all the time there are veins of pure gold awaiting the student who dares to delve deeper. If you listen carefully...
What is the real reason we exist on the earth? I am sure many would answer this question differently, but in the early Church Fathers would the answer was almost always the same. For man to be like God, as the Church Father Athanasius said, “ God...
I have never been very good at looking back, I have spent my life living in the moment and planning for the future. But writing this blog has forced me to take that backward glance and spend time looking in the rear view mirror. I...
On that Monday of Passion week the 12 disciples had no idea what lay ahead of them. You know what that is like when you leave your house in the morning, you can’t anticipate the 18 wheeler jackknifed on the highway, or the failure of...
The Bible, 783,137 words and every one of them inspired by the Holy Spirit, and every one of them belong to you and I. Each and every word is “God Breathed” and every day you and I have the opportunity to inhale them into our...
Once upon a time Jerusalem was known as the Jewel of the middle east, the perfection of beauty. She was the daughter of Zion, the center of the earth as the prophet Ezekiel would say (Ezekiel 5:5). At some point she began to embrace other lovers...
The greatest sermon ever preached, by the greatest preacher who ever spoke on earth, sacred rhetoric from the lips of the second person of the Trinity. Jesus ascends the mountain on the shores of Galilee to explain “a way of righteous living”. Unlike when Moses...
Don’t you hate those by-lines that say, “Three easy steps to….” Those steps are not always easy, and the three I suggest to you in this blog may not be easy either, but they will help you love 2022 more if you have the courage...
As Americans we too often live our lives with blinders on, you know only seeing what effects our nation, our immediate surroundings, our communities. A beautiful thing happens when the blinders come off and we realize there are 195 nations in the world and Jesus...
Inspiration. Where does yours come from? Some might answer, music, others a walk through the woods, still others reading ancient Greek poetry. Most of my inspiration comes while riding my motorcycle through the backroads of rural America where there is more wildlife than people....