Heard about this synchroblog over at robbymac asking about people’s first encounters with the Holy Spirit. What a great idea! Let me share mine with you….
In late 2004, I went on a physical diet as well as a spiritual diet. You can read more about the genesis of that in my testimony. I was chasing [...]
I want to talk about something I discovered about myself a while back. After several months of mounting frustration and heartache over faltering projects and withering plans (this has been a rather difficult year in many ways), I was just about at my wits end when I realized something. I think God probably nudged me [...]
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, Abba! Father! The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:15-16
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom [...]
Kris Vallotton of Bethel Church said something in a sermon I heard a while back that seared its way into my brain and has been really helpful for keeping me grounded in God’s eternal perspective. It went something like this: “don’t live by your circumstances, live by your stances.” Kris likes to say things in [...]
If God is a comfort, he’s more luxurious than fine silk or Egyptian cotton.
If God is an invention, he’s more innovative than the wheel or the lightbulb or the iPod.
If God is a phantom, he’s more alluring than the girl of my dreams.
If God is a concept, he’s more fantastic than democracy or capitalism or [...]
I’ve come to the staggering conclusion that I don’t pray enough. I say that with a wry grin on my face because it’s not like it’s the first time I’ve realized that! The thing that keeps biting me in the rear is my propensity to getting sucked into playing around on the computer. It’s pretty [...]
I don’t know about you, but out of curiosity and whim, I’ve tried a number of times to “stop thinking” and park my brain and leave the “engine idling” there for a while, and I just can’t do it. Maybe if you’re a Zen master it’s possible, but not for me. Within seconds my internal [...]
This may sound crazy, but if you really want to be a successful leader, you need to set yourself up for failure. What??? Shouldn’t that be: set yourself up for success?
No, because the fact is that there is no single leader ever who has not failed at one time or another. We all fail, because [...]
Must ado has been made about the revealing of Mother Teresa’s “Dark Night of the Soul” as some people have been calling it. In a nutshell, the major topic of debate has been over whether it’s appropriate or wise to serve God and follow His commandments without any active sense of God’s presence in one’s [...]
Is there a price to pay for getting whatever you want and having whatever you need? There most certainly is, and it’s called boredom. And apparently boredom is one of the unfortunate outcomes of our overstuffed, overfed, consumerist Western lifestyle.
Reading this article about the modern phenomena of boredom, I recall the stories I’ve heard of [...]
