Month: April 2010

1. The evidence of our love for Him is the absolute spontaneity of our love, which flows naturally from His nature within us.    2. How things appear is less a function of reality and more about our focus..    I realize that the last […]

. . . it has not yet been revealed what we shall be . . . —1 John 3:2   My great-granddaughter is at that great age. She gets excited about the smallest adventure. “Want to go bye-bye?” “What to take a bath?” “What to […]

I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go —Jeremiah 45:5   Matthew 10: 29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny

Do you seek great things for yourself? —Jeremiah 45:5 We know what this guy wants. Our problem is that we are a bit confused about what we want.   Have you ever been in a relationship, perhaps for years and then you realize that you […]

Take now your son . . . and offer him . . . as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you —Genesis 22:2    I can’t always separate what I personally know about God from what I have […]

Be ready in season and out of season —2 Timothy 4:2   It’s Kairos Season again. Three times a year a retreat is held at one of the camps at Angola. Preparations begin weeks in advance with weekly training meetings. The first such meeting was […]

When we are not admiring our church buildings or puffing up over our “body of work” in the kingdom, we are counting souls. How many were at service? How many came forward? How full are the parking lots and the pews. There are a multitude […]

One day this week I watched “Angels and Demons.” In the movie the Tom Hanks character rushes from magnificent church to magnificent church in Rome trying to prevent murders. His problem is figuring out in which magnificent church the next murder will occur. I eventually […]