This my testimony of the night I almost lost my life and how God raised me up from it. I had an allergic reaction to some medicine that I had been taking for 15 years that caused swelling on my tongue and throat to where i could barely breathe. But by the Grace of God, I survived and got stronger from the experience. Hopefully my story can bless and inspire someone else. Blog also available at: https://drministriesblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/im-alive/

Who are we? The line between the people that follow Christ and the ones that don't in their everyday lives has been blurred more and more by muddying the labels. I believe there is one identity that holds true and stands as a true metaphor for who we are. Are you a SOLDIER in the army of God? 

Blog available for written version at:

https://drministriesblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/a-soldier/

This podcast is dedicated to my dad. The minister, the social worker, the mechanic, the builder, the welder, the prayer warrior, the singer, the swiss army knife for God. A lot of times we wait until it's too late to tell someone we see them for who they are, but I want him to know that I see him as the loaf of bread that never ran out while feeding the multitude. The giver that never stopped giving.

It's the simplest yet most complicated question in the Christian faith. I attempt to answer this question for many that may have grown up and had or still have this question. How do we pray to God? What do we say? Do we pray like what we hear when we go to church? Is there a standard way to pray? What does the bible say?

A song is never just a song. the lyrics of a song can speak to someone in ways, your words may never be able to. I speak of the impact of songs from the first time i can remember hearing them to the way they shaped my life into the man I am today. The power in the lyrics, the music, the voice of an artist can easily be what shapes the life or changes the life of someone listening on any given day.

There’s no more time to sit on your calling. The time to live for God and do what he has designed you to do is now! Don’t wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come.

Perception is reality. It's a phrase that's echoed in every facet of life. it's a our lazy way of not getting to know people so we make up our own story, and sometimes it couldn't be further from the truth. The bible tells us not to judge unless we want to be judged for our own actions. Yet we ignore who we are and place judgement on people solely based on what we see and assume. But is that their reality?

I'm sure if i posed the question to people around you, they can come up with every reason that God cannot use you, but as God showed with the people he used in the bible, despite their shortcomings, there is nothing that God can't bring you out of to use you and raise you up. So, look yourself in the mirror and pose the question, "Why not me?"

God is yet still alive, yet we act like he hasn't done anything in 2000 years. We need to update his resume, tell the world what God has done for you. The bible is a great reference, a reliable text, but his reign didn't stop there. Let me elaborate...

If you ever doubt what God has done for you, sit down one day and attempt to count your blessings, by the second.