This week brings me yet another birthday. They seem to come quicker and quicker these days. 🙂 Every year when my birthday rolls around my heart’s greatest gifts are my family and friends that have taken this journey of life… Read More ›
Ministry
Where’s The Grace – Spiritual Hives – Humblebrag Theology
In these turbulent times, I read about, hear and see dissension and strife within the Body of Christ. Believers arguing about this-and-that, carrying picket signs to show their point of view, arguing across the air waves, posting proclamations in blogs… Read More ›
Raise in Praise – Connecting at a Higher Level – Bible Verse Inspiration
Do you need a raise in your life? Raise used as a verb – To help to rise or awaken, to lift up, to place higher in rank or dignity, to elevate, heighten, invigorate, to get together for a purpose… Read More ›
The Gas Pump Pastor – Jack of All Trades – Bivocational Ministers
The following is a real dialog between two believers on a Facebook page yesterday. Their conversation centered on a working man that pastored a local church. I came in after the fact, but I was intrigued by the conversation to… Read More ›
Lawrence DePrimo – The Need for Compassion – Barefoot and Blessed
This photo is of New York City officer Lawrence DePrimo kneeling down to give a barefoot homeless man in Times Square a pair of new boots he purchased for him on a cold November night. This true life scene touched… Read More ›
Hands Raised to God
Psalms 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. Psalms 28:2 Â Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. We call… Read More ›
In Hi$ Name . . .
1 Corinthians 10:33 I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved. God is asking us here… Read More ›
Almost Christian
John 3:30 King James He must increase, but I must decrease. New International Version He must become greater; I must become less New Living Translation He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. International Standard… Read More ›
What God Saw in a Murderer
Man looks at the outside and sees failure and weakness as God looks at the inside and sees wisdom and grace, justice and integrity, mercy and goodness, and a hope born in the Spirit of Christ. He sees the vulnerabilities… Read More ›
Dave Roever, A Story of Grace
In 1979, I was the Youth Pastor for Tommy Barnett at Westside Assembly of God. Dave Roever was the guest speaker that Sunday morning, and I was excited about meeting him. We were both Texas boys and Navy veterans. The… Read More ›
