When I was single, my relationship with Jesus was mostly “religious.” It was very mechanical- not intimate or personal at all. So, I continued to drift until I had a personal crash and burn situation that really left me desperate for more. My heart was...
One of the things that I love to do is to use God's word to dialogue with him. It's not the only way to pray, but it's one way that I think is really powerful and effective– because you're taking the very words of God...
On the latest episode of the podcast, I talked about how the enemy does not want you to have a devoted love with Jesus. Satan doesn’t want you to have that intimacy, that closeness. He certainly does not want Jesus to be the main thing:...
If you've made the decision to receive Christ, you're always going to be in Christ. You can't lose that, but you can leave it and drift away. That's what I’m talking about in Episode 71 of the Life on Life podcast. Much like a man or...
Doing good work is a very good thing, but not when it becomes the main thing. So how do we know when that happens? When we find ourselves doing good work for Jesus, but we’ve stopped walking with Jesus. We talk about Jesus. We teach about Jesus. We write...
When things don’t go as you plan, do you wish you could just start over? Hear me, friend: Don’t start over. Just begin again. An old Scottish proverb says, “the best-laid plans often go awry.” It refers to something that hasn’t turned out well or been as...
There's a big difference between speaking Biblical truth in love and the culture’s version of speaking truth in love. Biblical truth is the Truth of God's Word. Biblical love is a God-kind of love– it's doing what is in the best interest of others– loving unconditionally, but...
The sheer foolishness of people never ceases to make me slap my forehead— probably because I lived so foolishly in my earlier years (and should have done a lot more forehead slapping back then). In the Bible, the book of Proverbs refers to foolishness as...
I am an absolute believer in the Word of God. As you may have heard me say a time or two (or ten!), “God’s Word works when you work it into your life.” The Word of God is living and active and powerful, operative, energizing,...
Sometimes, God will force a stillness on you. Stillness is critical to our relationship with God. Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” The way to know God is to be still or "cease striving” as the term means. And we...