People sometimes ask me how I view the celebration of Halloween. About a year ago, I wrote a three part series on my personal (hopefully Biblically informed) opinions regarding this somewhat touchy subject. If you have the desire, I have linked the three articles here. Halloween and the Christian Part 1 Halloween and the Christian Part 2 Halloween and the…
Category: <span>Life</span>
What do you do when you can’t meet expectations? What about when it seems like your best is just not good enough? You know, whatever you do, you just don’t measure up? I know that in whatever we do in life, there will be critics. It seems like the latest “cool” thing to do within ministry is to mock your…
July 21, 2001, I married the love of my life and my best friend. Speaking earthly, it was the most enjoyable day of my life. Simply put, we had so much fun! I remember clearly standing at the front of that large church building waiting with sweat on my neck for the service to begin. I also remember just moments…
Event #3 This Thursday, July 21, 2011, my dear wife and I will celebrate 10 years of mutually delightful wedded joy with God as the witness between us in our covenant of marriage. In my previous post, I mentioned how blessed I was to be associated with a godly young woman with the courage to tell me, “no” regarding our…
This year, my wife and I will celebrate ten years of marriage. It has been the most wonderful ten years of my life, and I don’t say that flippantly or out of a sense of duty, I mean that with every sincere bone in my body. Those who read this blog and know me personally, know very well that there…
When I am at my weakest that is when God’s glorious providence and power will burn through the most brightly. Oh, how I want to shine as the moon in its fullness of orb. When it casts its light over the darkest night, not waxing or waning, but simply glowing with the full brightness of the sun’s reflective rays. Truly,…
Reading, studying, thinking, praying, and contemplating my sinfulness, my weakness, my failures, my struggles in light of this Passion Week; has impacted me once again as to how much I need Jesus. I need his grace, his favor–I cry with Isaiah, “Woe is me, for I am undone.” If there is one thing that the Holy Week impresses upon me…
For every Timothy there is a Demas (2 Timothy 4:10). For every Prisca and Aquila there is a Hymenaeus and Alexander (I Timothy 1:20). For every Epahproditus (Philippians 2:25-30) there is a “Corinthian.” For those who do not know what I am talking about, I recently noticed that there is a great balance in the inspired writings of the Apostle…
Laying awake at night, thinking back through the day-you sometimes wonder what the purpose of it all is. You lay there unable to weep, unable to be angry, unable to really understand why you are feeling what you feel, but as the internal darkness seems more hopeless, only one voice echoes in your mind, and it repeats itself over and…
I had a dream that I was a work horse plowing up my master’s field. I labored night and day working relentlessly to secure my master’s pleasure. As the sweat would tumble from my back, I wanted to let my master know how good I was for him, how much he needed me and how much I could be counted…