Our culture tries to smear us with shame for following Christ. Atheism’s angry voice dominates. I want to fit in, yet that means concealing the […]
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My desire for God can be so conflicted. This is seen in Song of Songs 2. 8 … Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, … It […]
When a person meets with God, the impact is not often in the spectacular, but in the fragrance. It is not often in miracles or […]
When I am spiritually empty I get caught up with myself, and forget God. It is a strange emptiness coming either through abandoning routine times […]
The Lord has been asking me, ‘What is it that you want?’ I am left struggling. In the past I have known clearly what I […]
Paul identifies himself as both a servant of Christ and one entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed (1 Corinthians 4:1). It is to the […]
Sometimes we presume God will act. The Psalmist indicates that prayer is needed even when it seems God is sure to act. Psalm 119:169 May […]
Why is it that when something is going wrong it is hard to believe God will save me? I know I am not alone in […]
The cross stands as an embarrassment! If I proclaim a God of power it is embarrassing that my God was taken to a cross and […]
One of the temptations of spiritual leadership is spiritual prostitution. Ezekiel 16:15-21 spells this out. He begins, “15 But you trusted in your beauty and […]
When we think we have ‘the answer’ in a spiritual pathway, then we risk worldliness. Paul says, Brothers and sisters, I could not address you […]
When I read of the collapse of God’s people in the last days of Israel before the Assyrian invasion, I am amazed that godliness could […]
I can feel the burden of ministry and a responsibility to serve. Yet ‘He says, “I removed the burden from their shoulders, their hands were […]
‘God’s business is putting things right; he loves getting the lines straight, setting us straight. Once we are standing tall, we can look him straight […]