Earlier this month, my family and I traveled to Colorado and Arizona. The purpose of our time in Colorado was wholly leisure. We hiked, explored, relaxed, rested, and reveled in the adventure of God’s beautiful creation–the mountains, trees, and trails. Simply awe-inspiring from a loving God worthy of worship! The purpose of our time in […]
It’s Not About Me by Max Lucado: “On our own, we’re spiritually sunk, my friend. As sunk as the Kursk. Remember the nuclear submarine Kursk, the pride of the Russian navy? August 12, 2000, was to be her banner day. Five high-ranking naval officers journeyed to sea to witness a demonstration of her strength. […]
I was playing a Wii game with my son recently and even though I won round after round within this one game (unusual when I play my son), the program kept popping up with the words: This immediately began a war between my old perfectionism flesh pattern which wants to try harder out of my […]
It was a humid, Wednesday morning. I sat at the table outside Starbucks with my 11:00 a.m. appointment, a young missionary to South Dallas’ homeless and despondent. Like all the others I have had the pleasure of meeting thus far in the ministry, I saw that she was on fire for the Lord with a […]
“Have you considered my servant Nancy?” This twist to Job 1:8 has crossed my mind multiple times over the last 3 weeks. As you might recall, Job was a righteous man of God who was of particular interest to Satan because of Job’s love of and faith in the Lord. And even though we do […]
For the past three weeks, my family and I have been absolutely fascinated by one of God’s creations. A mourning dove decided to make her nest and lay her eggs in the gutter outside our front door. Day and night, without fail, she was there, protecting her eggs and then day and night, we were […]
I was delivering Bibles last week in an ol’ familiar area of town. Familiar because about 20 years ago, I was an aspiring writer whose passion was poetry, and I would frequent some of the coffee shops and clubs in downtown Dallas with a friend of mine, writing while he sketched, attending poetry slams together. […]
One of my favorite imageries of how all of us believers can work together to share the message of God’s redemption and for God’s glory is the illustration of all of us being part of one body (the body of Christ). First Corinthians 12 says, “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes […]
“I’m ready to go home. I’ve had enough of this world.” I uttered these words out of emotion and exasperation, over what now I do not even remember, although it could have been any number of things. In the last week of news, I have seen a teenager who was suing her parents for […]
Mark Twain once said, “There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” Although I knew that one of the most common fears among us all is public speaking, also known as glossophobia, that did little to quell my nerves as I sat in the U2 Have Hope […]