Living by grace. Free. Bold. Strong. Courageous. Too many people today are struggling to survive and thrive simply because they believe they are not good enough, don’t measure up, and can’t make the cut. They believe that they are not worth God’s time, God’s love, or God’s blessings — and so they don’t even bother…
Individual radicalization and religious extremism today present a clear and present danger both to individuals and to the core freedoms upon which civilization is built. The content of speech is not what should determine if it can be allowed by any society. Speech should be free, period. Speech is a medium for communication and it…
Do you believe in grace? When you ask yourself what you need in order to be successful in life, what do you believe the answer is? When you consider the pursuit of happiness, fulfillment, peace, and joy, what do you identify as the root cause? When you are in the fight of your life for…
Sin doesn’t scare God. Your mistakes don’t cause God to doubt His purpose in you. God isn’t questioning His choice to create you. God is not afraid. How many times have you been told to be afraid by another believer? How many people are worried about the decisions you have made? How many people have warned…
Life is not a test. It’s not about pass/fail or making it to the top of the class. Life is not a singular thing. It is not a single decision or a moment in time. Life is not about making it to the finish line or performing above the average. Life is not a test….
There is a difference between a memory and a photograph. A photograph is simply evidence of times gone by, a memory is a dynamic and malleable thing which grows and changes as your continuing and current experience causes you to revisit, reinterpret, relive, and reevaluate the moments stored for future reference in your memory. There…
God is not dead. God is not distant. God is not an invention of human superstition or an anthropomorphic interpretation of phenomena beyond our control. God is alive. God is present. God is real. People often ask “Where was God?” after turbulent times, tumult, disease, loss, disaster, and despair. The answer is that God is…
Which is easier to believe? There was a man. Now whether this man was a good man or a bad man we do not know. What we do know is that his body had stopped responding to his brain in a healthy fashion and so he was paralyzed. Maybe it was ALS. Maybe it was…
Get ready. God is about to do something big. “Yeah…right…about that…” Have you gotten to a place where it seems hard to believe? Are you ready for someone else to do something for you for a change? Does it seem like the ancient Greek saying so often attributed to Ben Franklin is the moral of…
You should be living your life with expectancy. “Yeah, right. Nothing seems to be working out for me right now. Why should I expect it to get better?” Expectations are central to your ability to handle a wide variety of situations. Expectations set by past experience, education, insight, wisdom, perception, intuition, understanding, and more are…
Don’t let it get you down. Every time something negative has happened in my life I have told myself, “Don’t let it get you down.” But what does this really mean? You got passed over at work for a less qualified candidate. Don’t let it get you down. You got told you have cancer. Don’t…
Jesus taught a declarative faith. Belief is too often relegated to the boundaries of life where your doubt meets your credulity. Jesus didn’t say “If you think this mountain may move it will.” Jesus said, “I assure you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You…