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.
I’ve been watching Billy Graham’s classic crusade messages on youtube.com. Now there was a man who didn’t have an agenda other than Jesus Christ and didn’t promote his books from the pulpit or endorse political candidates, as is the habit of some modern-day “prophets,” evangelists, and mega-church pastors. We are living in a perverse generation […]
If you’ll remember, my friend Tony was let out of jail a week ago last Saturday and found himself freezing in his deceased father’s home before calling 911 and ending up in a Minneapolis hospital mental health unit. I asked for suggestions, and some of you offered them. Thank you. However, God had the answer […]
Tony was released from jail last Saturday and had no place to go except his deceased father’s unheated home. It was 20 below that night, as Tony, draped with blankets, huddled in front of a small space heater. At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, he called a suicide hot line and told them he was freezing […]
What close relationship do you have where you do all the talking, especially when meeting with someone more knowledgeable than yourself? But isn’t that what we often do with God in prayer, whose thoughts and ways are higher than ours? Don’t we too often tell Him what to do with a particular person we’re praying […]
Tony lost his father last week; he didn’t get a chance for a last visit because he’s sitting in the Wright County Jail. That’s pain number one. He and his girlfriend of long standing both have mental health issues that put them on the fringes of society. That’s pain number two. He went to visit […]
Holy Spirit, Lover of my soul,Hearing Your voice has been my goal.And as this day fades out of sight,Watch over all my dreams tonight.
Shawn murdered a young woman in cold blood and had been on death row for two years awaiting his execution. He was as guilty as guilty could be and had great remorse for what he had done. His appeals to escape the death penalty would run out sometime in the next year and then would […]