The physical heart is to the body as the metaphorical heart is to the soul (our mind, will, and emotions; all that makes each of us me) as God is to our spirit. The body looks to the heart as that which gives it life. The soul looks to the repository of all that it […]
If I were to die today, in a literal sense, there would be no pleasing myself any longer. I would be worshiping God in an eternal world. Now, here’s a crazy thought – what if I were to back up eternity to this very day, pull it back from that which is to come to […]
… until there is no self to protect. What was it about Jesus that He did not defend Himself? One defends the natural Adamic self, the he or she who walks amongst the animals and trees, the one who says, “It is I myself that I must protect at all costs.” Jesus did not live […]
There was a time when I thought God was in His heaven and all was right with the world. I can no longer believe that. The world is a mess, pure and simple, and is careening toward chaos. Lying is fast becoming the norm of our society. Deceiving others has become a way of life […]
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. – Isaiah 55:8 I look at the thoughts of the Lord and His ways as a Spiritual stream of consciousness permeating this world, like the air itself – invisible but omnipresent, flowing through every person and surrounding the trees […]
It is the Sovereign Lord who helps me. –Isaiah 50:9 Help comes from God alone. It means He does everything on behalf of someone who is in great distress. To ask for God’s help is to acknowledge our dependence on Him. Praying for God to help this person or that is a wonderful prayer, without getting […]
At 2 a.m. on June 1, 2016, Shawn Tyler Benson let a friend stick a hypodermic needle in his arm and shoot him up with methamphetamine. At 2:30 a.m. that same morning, he shot Cheyenne Clough in the back of the head, execution style, as she lay wounded on the ground in a county park […]
How can you be thankful if you are not humble, and how can you be humble if you are not patient, and how can you be patient if you are not dependent on God, and how can you be dependent unless you trust in the Lord God Almighty with all your heart and lean not […]
Tyler has his eyes set on bringing salvation to his old school chum Eric, who has been in and out of jail for the past year and is best friends with John Barleycorn (look that up on Google). One night, in a drunken stupor, Eric jumped out of a moving car, hit his head on […]
My wife and I dashed off to the Great Southwest for the past two weeks, a welcome relief from a steady procession of bleak and wintry days in Minnesota. We stayed with my sister and her husband in Palm Desert, CA, for a week. Every day was in the 80s. Then off to Phoenix for […]