A War Cry and A Love Story
His ministry lasted three years – that’s over 1,000 days of life-giving, soul-saving, absolutely perfect divine truths pouring out of His mouth – yet we have only four relatively short gospel accounts of His life. You could read them in one day if you wanted to. The last sentence of John’s Gospel says that if …read more →
A Journey From Self-Absorption to Self-Forgetfulness: My Personal Awakening!
“You’re the most selfish person I have ever met,” said Tiffany, once or twice a week, for about the first 10 years of our marriage. She wasn’t the only one. My sister in Christ who worked for me uttered very similar words of encouragement around that same season… “Mike, you’re the most self-absorbed person I’ve …read more →
Numb to Reality: Christian’s Voyage on the Cosmic Battlefield
Hey, Christian, May I remind you of the current reality of your situation? Right now, as you read these words, you are sitting – or standing – at some minuscule dot on a massive globe of dirt, and lava, and water, that is somehow suspended in a vast expanse of nothingness we call space. But …read more →
“A BEAUTIFUL OBSCURITY: Your Calling Isn’t What You Think It Is”
Who do you think of when you think of the “greats” of the Christian faith? If someone had asked me, for most of my Christian life, I would have rattled off names like Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, or Mother Theresa. I would have immediately thought of men and women who have written great books, preached …read more →
Looking in the Mirror: Ten Words to Wake Up the American Church
I was watching the recording on the other side of a computer screen, twenty years later, when I heard those ten words. I couldn’t believe what I had just heard come out of the preacher’s mouth. Although I wasn’t there, I felt everything in that room change. The entire atmosphere had shifted. You could feel …read more →
A LOVE THAT IS FIERCE – Gods message to Mothers
THE CREATOR REVEALS HIMSELF! What if I told you there was somewhere you could go to see God? I’m not talking about Heaven. I’m talking about somewhere you can see Him right now, today. What if I told you that likely, wherever you are, it would take you less than five minutes to get to …read more →
DOES GOD SEND TRIALS? – The things we don’t want to see!
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” The Lord said to …read more →
What to do when you’re feeling BLAH!!
Some days the last thing I “feel” like doing is reading His word OR praying!! I just feel spiritually lethargic. It’s not that I want to go plunge into sin…it’s just that I don’t feel anything….just BLAH!!! For me, one of the things that has helped me on those days is to write out the …read more →
The Journal- The Ups & Downs, Sleep, and Conversation with God
9-20-18 Entry #1- on the ups and downs, depression, and sleep I’m amazed at my ability to be completely on top of the world one day and literally want to throw in the towel, start over and re-build everything the next! I know that some of this is my personality but I’ve also noticed that …read more →
Capacity and Fullness
I have always loved the teaching I read in Randy Alcorn’s book, Heaven. Writing on the topic of rewards in Heaven based on our lives on earth, Randy says that…. Everyone’s cup will be full in Heaven. But some peoples’ cups will be much larger than others’ (paraphrasing).The great theologian, Jonathan Edwards, also shared this …read more →
A FRUSTRATION WITH CHRISTIANITY
I used to serve a different God. I was a surfer, and the ocean was my god. I won’t ever forget the first wave I caught at Folly Beach, South Carolina that summer. I was probably only 11 or 12 years old and that wave was probably only three or four feet. But the …read more →
Snapchat, my daughter, and the risky decision I made
Intagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Music.ly, Twitter…OMG, I feel like my head is getting ready to explode from all of the things I believe I have to monitor and manage to protect my children these days. I feel exhausted at times just trying to keep up with it all! What is safe for them to have and …read more →
Empty Handed
I am reminded this morning that this “walk” with Christ on Earth is not a boring one. It’s not a dull & boring life. It is so easy to look around and see the ways of the world around us and the pursuits of those that don’t believe and begin to think the Christian life …read more →
Alcohol- What I Learned and Why I Quit!
Five years ago I drank my last sip of alcohol. Every so often I have found it beneficial to re-visit the reasons why I decided to quit drinking and reflect on the things I learned during my time with alcohol. Over the last several years I have normally done this in my personal journal but I …read more →
Overwhelmed by Gods to-do list for you?–Simplify your spiritual life now!
Do you find yourself overwhelmed at times with what you believe the requirements are to be a good Christian? I’m not talking about abstaining from sin. I am talking about that list of spiritual disciplines ( prayer, bible study,etc…) we all have in our heads of what we believe God expects us “to-do” to seek Him …read more →
Seeking- Part 2–“All Your Heart”
Most Christians have heard the great verse in Jeremiah that proclaims … “I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity ,to give you a future and a hope” But it is far less often that the 2 verses that follow are recited with it. They …read more →
Seeking- part 1– “Standing in the Road”
I become more and more convinced that most Christians, including myself at many times, find ourselves unhappy and unfulfilled in life because once we have accepted salvation and have His Spirit within us we face a great predicament. We are like a man standing in the middle of the street and he must decide which …read more →
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Most men would agree that great opportunities are a rare thing. They have the perception that when opportunity knocks we had better answer. We had better respond. We better be ready. They believe it could be “the opportunity of a lifetime”. And while I do believe there is value in a continual …read more →
The One and Only Thing
If the story of God and man had to be boiled down to one word, what would it be? What is the entire book really about? In my opinion, the word would be LOVE. That word sums up the entire history of man and his story on earth as given to us in the Bible. …read more →
THE BEST REST
I find myself currently entrenched in one of the busiest seasons I have ever encountered in my life. Our business has been very blessed lately and right now I am working very hard to keep up with the blessing that God has been pouring out to us. Thank you Lord!! Here is what I have …read more →
A Powerful Thought
“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass.” As a Man Thinketh, by James …read more →
Ripple Effects
I would like to start this post by sharing with you one of the most important and foundational business principles I have learned over the past 13-14 years. I realize this is not a “business blog” but at times there are lessons I have learned in business that I have also found to have …read more →
Be on the alert!!
Tonight I listened to Mark Driscoll’s 3rd message in his current series on Ephesians. I would highly recommend anything by Mark Driscoll but beware that he is not a “tickle your ears” kind of teacher. He preaches the “whole” word of God. As I listened I was reminded of something that I have found to be …read more →
Where are you?
In the beginning, shortly after that fatal snack, God came looking for man. He walked through the Garden and He called out to Adam. The question God asked was this….”Where are you?” Adam responded… “I heard the sound of You in the Garden, and I was afraid because I was naked” In the end, as …read more →