THE WRONG PRAYER Many years ago, while driving from Willmar to Minneapolis, I prayed: “Lord, come into my world and show me how to live in it; And I’ll be a shining light for You.” Immediately, the Holy Spirit let me know that was the wrong prayer and gave me the right one: “No, you […]
IT IS FINISHED – John 19:30 If it was finished, it have to have started. And it did – with Adam and Eve. The Father started the history of mankind with those two and finished the reign of sin with the death of Christ Jesus. The debt is paid. All that needed to be done […]
God’s Pocket Last Friday, as I left a medical clinic in Buffalo, I came across a grizzled, old black man sitting on a bench with what I assumed was all his worldly possessions in a large duffle bag. What was his story, I wondered? Where had he been? Where was he going? I didn’t ask […]
ABOUT TIM I gave a talk last night at Metro Hope Ministries, a Christian transition house in South Minneapolis. Tim approached me after the conclusion, eager to tell me something that was on his mind. “The cost of recidivism [committing the same crimes and returning to jail] is more than $30,000 per prisoner per year. […]
AMAZING GRACE If you’ll remember, this past February 10 I gave a presentation on Staying Out of Jail at the Wright County Jail, using the book Arm in Arm with the Holy Spirit as a reference. I gave free copies of the book to all 31 inmates who showed up that night. On March 5, […]
CHILDREN OF GOD The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. – Romans 8:16 Romans 7 is a real bummer. We all struggle with sin, even as Christians, because we have a sinful nature inherited from our natural parents, Adam and Eve. But we also have a spiritual nature by the death […]
EXCITING PRISON MINISTRY Too many inmates in county jails and state and Federal prisons find themselves back in jail or prison within five years because they don’t know how to change their lives or are unwilling to do so. On February 10 of this year, I gave a presentation at the Wright County Jail to […]
ABOUT JAKE 2 A month ago, I posted this entry on my blog. I had prison ministry last Sunday, with three inmates attending – Tim, Jake, and Jake. I had a sense from the Holy Spirit that something special was going to happen, and it did. There were two true believers who came in the […]
ABOUT JAKE I had prison ministry last Sunday, with three inmates attending – Tim, Jake, and Jake. I had a sense from the Holy Spirit that something special was going to happen, and it did. There were two true believers who came in the door and three who left. The middle Jake came to the […]
AN APPOINTMENT WITH GOD I attend a noon prayer gathering at our church on Mondays when I’m in town. At this last Monday’s session, a woman named Ellen casually used the term “an appointment with God” when mentioning what I thought was her morning prayer time. At the conclusion of a robust time of prayer, […]