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We don’t want to hear it or admit it, but sometimes we hate people more than we love God. We are sitting under our dead bushes, looking over the city where we have misrepresented God as hateful and malicious because something inside of us is hateful and malicious. We have done so knowing how merciful…

Khumbaya, my Lord! Come by here.Yes. Yes. Yes.Make a way.Come and speak..Come and touch.Come and lead.Come and sit awhile among us.Come, instruct us.Come, teach us.Come and correct the errors of our ways … including …Several misconceptions of You and how we have …Used you and taken your name in vain to promote our own views,Our prejudices…

    "Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."Practicing your righteousness before men." – Matthew 6:1 NIV I struggle with this as I post the devotional thoughts that God gives me in my…

Prayer is not a scholastic exercise. It is relationship.

  Break them again, Lord. Wouldn't it be something if every army and violent fraternity on earth woke up in the morning and none of their weapons worked? What would that be like? What it their knuckles had no punch? What if they had to use words and righteous deeds to win the favor of…

Not a harsh word, is the word spoken to our condition. There is no need. Nor, is it a condemning word in tone or force. Truth rejected cannot forever be avoided. There is a built-in condemnation when all the Universe cries out, "He told you so." It is a true word. It is a decisive…

We have all been burned by bad religion. Sometimes we have been burned by good religion wrongly expressed. On occasions, God's best friends are living examples of the adage, "With friends like that, who needs enemies?" "Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs." – Psalm 74:4…

Our best prayers are squeezed out of us in the pressure cooker of life. On troubled waters, we discover the presence and peace of God as we are rocked, rolled, tossed, and whipped by the winds of furious love, reckless abandon, and restless change. Don’t stop reading. There is more.

There is no substitute for encounter. Encounter is the essence of faith for it is where faith leads us and from whence it comes. Encounter is meeting God and meeting God is what the fear and reverence of God are about – melting in the presence of God, unveiled face, beholding glory, being reshaped and…