Do You Love Jesus? If you really love Him, you won’t ask Him to follow you around like a little puppy dog. You won’t treat Him like a vending machine to supply everything you want. Do not ask Jesus to follow you. You follow Him. It’s not, “Where I am Jesus is,” but rather, “Where […]
I crave this time of stillness and quiet as the world wakes up with me. I want these first moments to be perfect, peaceful, and perspective-shaping, but they are often characterized by internal battles and external interruptions of my mind. The battle in my heart can only be won through Christ’s work within me, remaking […]
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.Joel 2:31 The days roll by in this dimension, one after another, but not forever. There will be an end to this life, only God knows when, and we’ll stand before the Creator of the […]
O, Lord, how can I rightly see others until I rightly see You? How can I understand myself until I understand Your call on my life? How can I interpret the times unless I acknowledge Your involvement in Your creation? How can I pray for anyone or anything unless I allow the Holy Spirit to […]
Lord, I too often found myself not taking time to spend with You yesterday because I was so busy with other things. Children of God who want to please God keep their priorities straight and refuse to do things that could distract them from what is really important In order to grow closer to You […]
“How do you see God, Brian?” I asked one of the men I mentor who is a new Christian. “He’s the Guy upstairs who I follow. He’s the one who created the world and me. He’s the one who died for my sins. I don’t know if I’m answering it the way you want. Why […]
Just before I stepped up on the stage to give chapel at the Adult and Teen Chapel in Brainerd, Minnesota, yesterday, a guy named Adam stood at the podium and everyone cheered. He was one of them returned. Adam told his story of going through the 13-month program there in the past and had been […]
Some time back I was going through a spiritual dry spell during a time I had taken on two new clients in my business coaching and was editing a book that had almost as many errors as there were sentences in the manuscript (a slight exaggeration). In addition to this were the controversies over wearing […]
This is a metaphor, based on Scripture. Each person is a vessel, filled either with himself/herself or God. He is the Potter; we are the clay. He is the Creator; we are the creatures. Without Him, there is no vessel. The outer wall of the vessel is the body; the inner wall, the soul. You […]
Holy Spirit, Guardian of my soul,My Counselor, Teacher, Pray-er, allToday You turned the dark to light, Now guide the world of my dreams tonight.