Have you ever approached God and said, “God I offer you all I have?” I have done this and still do. However, it is one thing to offer God your heart, gifts, talents, and abilities for serving His purpose. It is altogether another act to attempt to try to help Him save you. You can [...]
Continue Reading...
“I Don’t Know Much, But I Know I Love You, And That May Be All There Is To Know…” Aaron Neville & Linda Rondstadt sang the lyrics to this song in 1989. This is true when comes to my love relationship with God. I’m even tempted to call it a love/hate relationship. Why? At times, [...]
Continue Reading...
Ever since I can remember, I have had this overwhelming sense that I was on a journey toward my destiny…whatever that is. I have also experienced an unrelenting pressure to make sure that I do not screw it up. Do you know what I mean? The will of God is probably the most perplexing idea [...]
Continue Reading...
Difficult is the word that I would use to often describe my ability to believe God for impossible situations. When I was a younger guy, I found it really easy to simply put my faith out there for the entire world to see and believe God to do what I knew was humanly impossible. For [...]
Continue Reading...
I, like many have heard or read the John 3 exchange between Jesus and Nicodemus. I have read this story countless times and have never seen the passage as I do now. There have been many salvation messages preached out of this text. And rightfully so, however, there is so much more to this story [...]
Continue Reading...
This is a guest post that I wrote for Matt Steen of Church Thought. In 2005 while pastoring my first church, I collided with a wall theologically and/or doctrinally. I mean I hit it hard. I began questioning aspects of what I held as my sacred foundation of Christ. These fundamentals were so connected to my salvation [...]
Continue Reading...
John tells us in his gospel that, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son of the father, full of grace and truth.” (1:14) I like saying it from this perspective, “God’s best idea became human, to be like us, to live with [...]
Continue Reading...
For most of my life I have believed in God’s love. Well, in reality I believed in God’s love to the extent that I had a revelation of God’s love. If I can state it plainly without offending you I would say it like this, “I knew that God loved me, but I also thought [...]
Continue Reading...
