I understand that we are all unique yet share many characteristics. Something I’ve always considered unique about myself is my mindset towards life. I tend towards the happy side. I’m not exactly risk averse. I don’t generally carry negative expectations for my life. That does not mean fear hasn’t smacked me around at times and…
The time period we live in today is referred to in the Bible as “Man’s Day” where man does all the judging. Have you ever noticed? The world we live in lives embroiled in judgments. People judge how you look, where you live and the car you drive. It is as if they are all…
I learned long ago that the believer’s only enemy was fear because fear defeats the promises of God. Not defeated in the sense that God could be defeated, but defeated in terms of stopping the believer from receiving the results of the promise. Fear is never based on truth. Fear is another option. Fear is…
Golf is such a mental game. There’s a reason you can hit 90% of a large bucket at the range, yet can’t tie two good shots in a row on the course. What was relaxed got tense. Focusing on clean contact morphed into add power and other weird stuff. Easy stuff like chipping turns into…
“You’ll know you’re winning when you are no longer thinking about yourself.” There is more to the story. It always amazes me that Evil found a way to corrupt humanity, then in humanity’s weakened and corrupted state, somehow focused the rest of man’s energy on what was wrong with him in that very state Evil…
“You’ll know you’re winning when you are no longer thinking about yourself.” There it was, a sparkling result, indeed synthesis of the many things I had been talking over with my “Papa.” I have found my weekly trips to visit my mother have provided me with a rich opportunity for communion with my God of…
Recently, I was playing in a golf tournament with my nephew at Anthem Country Club in Henderson, Nevada. We were in golfer bliss as we played the course in the hot Nevada sunshine. Then, on the second or third round, I had something incredulous happen to me. It was a little thing that represented a…
Tonight’s topic while undoubtedly very sensitive and personal speaks to a broader misconception that prevails in the minds of men. Not much time goes by without hearing some testimony bared concerning understanding amidst a great tragedy. Often the thesis being how God did something quite terrible or else allowed something disastrous to happen in order…
Spoiler alert, nothing I say tonight will be about you improving your behavior to get something from God. In times past when I heard this verse from Haggai, my mind immediately shifted to what improvements I needed to make. I used to think it was a condemnation so I didn’t “consider my ways” very often.…
I’m going to propose something tonight you may find a bit insulting. We all learned a certain way to live life. Because we were unaware and did not know better we were easy prey. We were taught a way to live that really didn’t involve God. Oh sure, we made obligatory appearances and some attended…