January 30, 2019 A hearer of the Word observes. A doer of the Word participates. Thousands heard Goliath hurl malicious verbal insults at the frightened Israelites. Only David did something about it. Observation can stay distant. Participation gets up close and personal. You can’t stay on the mountain and get something done. You have to […]

June 23, 2019 She wasn’t used to running. Her lungs revolted in her chest and threatened to shut down. Her heart thumped so fast she felt like horses were galloping in her rib cage. She panted heavily and ran even harder. But then her right foot hit an unseen root sticking out of the ground. […]

June 16, 2019 You can be strong because you have money. Money can get you influence, buy you nice things, and get you through many doors in life. But there is weakness in this earthly kind of strength. “The root of all evil is….love of money.” You can have it, but not have a heart. […]

June 9, 2019 It is the darkness of the world system; tolerance for transgression while exhibiting hatred for Biblical holiness; love of one another as long as it fits the secular or Satanic agenda, but present a verse from the Bible as a foundation for moral reasoning and you are labeled as the sinister forces […]

June 2, 2019 By this one leper cleansing Physician of heaven; by this one virtue sharing hemorrhage healing savior; by this one lover of lepers, friend of the flawed, hope of the hurting, light to the listless and staggering generations of despair; this one man brought fertile soil to the grieving lands of withered dreams, […]

May 26, 2019 Without grace we are at best gross. Gross with the garbage of sin. Gross with failures and filth. Gross with the stains of iniquity. Gross with the decomposing flesh of temptations and addictions. The ugliness of pocked features, leftover markings of a sinful nature, reflects from horror’s waters. We are sinners, born […]