We all cast a shadow in our lives and we all provide snapshots of ourselves in the lives of the people we meet that last long past the moment in which they were engraved upon our hearts and minds.… Continue reading

Every forlorn and desperate psalm is an invitation for us to come to God in very honest prayer. Continue reading

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  Should a person always answer his or her critics? It is our impulse. We might feel that silence implies vacillation, lack of courage, or unwillingness to engage. Perhaps, sometimes, it does. At other times, it merely indicates a feeling… Continue reading

Integrity, Vulnerability, and Authenticity - IVA Are you real? You know the answer, but the clincher is how people perceive you. Do you come across as real? If not, you are paying a high price because your credibility account is overdrawn… Continue reading

The wise woman builds her house,  but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. – Proverbs 14:1 Are you a builder or a destroyer? Some of us are on life's demolition crew and others are on the… Continue reading

To ask, to seek, to dwell, to gaze, to inquire.Mix them up, stir them around, or take them in reverse.You could do them all at once.You could take them in order.It is a simple "ask" that ushers in a progression… Continue reading

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” – Luke 19:10 This simple word from the Master answers the criticism of stale religionists that He was spending too much time with sinners.… Continue reading

“Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft… In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in… Continue reading

“… I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19 Whatever happened to the cross? To the Romans it was merely another two pieces of… Continue reading