As we disciples of Jesus look forward to a new year of opportunities to grow in Him and serve Him, it seemed prudent to me to address our...

(These are the notes I loosely worked from last night in our Christmas Eve Service. Here is the link for the video: ...

This will probably be my last post about fathering from the Old Testament though much more could be said therein. I felt before we go on...

So much talk around the election and all things Trump has taken place in the last week or so…. Why in the world add to it?   Well...

One of the things I pray often for the leadership of our church and for our church members and for the wider body of Christ is that we...

One of the most comforting truths about our Savior Jesus Christ is that though being fully God and fully righteous, and though hating...

I’ll never forget a night in my front yard in my latter high school years. I was part of a youth group led by the Youth Pastor/leader at...

"Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness."Jim Eliot, martyr missionary to the...

Before I leave the subject of using prayer lists I want to suggest one more called the “Tending My Garden Prayer Tool”. I was introduced...

“ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the...

“God shapes the world by  prayer.  The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against...

We’ve tried to establish in the first two articles about I Corinthians 14 that a tongues message when interpreted in a corporate...

Jeroboam was one of the most wicked and idolatrous kings of Israel. Instead of looking to the God of Israel for help and protection and...

Psalm 119 (author unknown) was given to us for many reasons. One reason is to help us see the kind of passion that we can and should have...

I promised to revisit I Corinthians 14 at the end of my article/sermon published on July 10, 2024  – seeking to repeat some of the things...

As I continue to read the Bible through systematically every year and some books multiple times in each year I find that there are things...

(I was asked to give a 2-3 minute word on the marriage of the Spirit and the Word in our Servant Leaders gathering yesterday. I didn’t...

In my last two posts I tried to explore Jesus’s relationship with the Holy Spirit as is revealed in the four gospels and in some Old...

One of the reasons many of us were not as strong in the Holy Spirit as we should have been as children and young people is because we...

Every morning I start off my day meditating on a Psalm. My psalm yesterday was 72, which speaks of the reign of the righteous king. Great...