Are you tired of trying to live for Christ—only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to do better, yet fail to progress? As an author, speaker, pastor, and blogger at Ragamuffin Soul, Carlos Whittaker has lived much of his spiritual […]

It is the lies that we believe that create what we call our spiritual cobwebs of sin and destructive behavior. To find freedom from the spider and its lie, we have to identify and reject the lie and replace it with God’s truth. God has made his truth known in Jesus but we are responsible […]

Our struggle in our spiritual life to be like Jesus can be pictured as spiders and cobwebs. We try to get rid of our cobwebs which are habits, hang-ups and sins that we know are wrong and hurt us and others. So we clean out a cobweb but they keep coming back. Why? Because we […]

Life is hard, unfair and difficult. In those circumstances, it is hard to focus on anything but the bad situation. Grace is greater than any accident, sickness, setback or loss we might face. And, here’s the final key point we make about grace in this series: God’s grace works for our good in our difficulties. […]

We’ve been hurt. We’ve been betrayed, abused, rejected, diminished, ignored, lied and gossiped about and more. The hurt and pain is real. But God’s grace is greater than our hurts. He offers release from our hurts and freedom from our past wounds as we choose to his way of grace, which is to forgive.

Our sin is ugly, really ugly. Sin shows up every day in almost every situation. It is in the thoughts we have, the attitudes we carry, the words we speak and the actions we do or don’t do that we should do. We disappoint God, fall short of his ideals for us, we hurt others, […]

There is one thing that matters most to God. That one thing must matter to us. That one thing is to seek and save those who are spiritually lost, disconnected from God and not experiencing a life-giving relationship with Jesus. We must do all we can to reach those who are not connected to God […]

We live today in light of the end. No one knows when Jesus will come back and God will judge the world. None of us know when our lives will end, and this life is short in terms of eternity. So, we live today as if the end is very soon. We are to be […]

We are called to be a counter-cultural people who live such good and different lives that folks can’t help but notice. We do good and let God work through the goodness we offer. We let our lives speak for God.

We are special people. We are not just scattered and random. But like a mosaic, we all come together to form an incredible, beautiful structure. We are a spiritual house. We no longer go to a temple to meet God through a priest, but we are the temple and have the presence of God within […]