I wake as if from a different world. Dreams of tests and running in a competition I am struggling in. Caring about tripping, worried about falling. Looking around me, fearing, what will others think of me? I crawl to my secret place, pajamas still on, coffee in hand. Batting at the sky, asking the God of […]
I open Facebook. Just got news. Asked to do something that pierces all confidence. How can I….how can any of us….stand tall,when we have been so small for so long? How do we rise when life has been hammering us, continually forcing us not to rise….Not to speak. Not to be. Like dust sitting idly on […]
My second grader has been learning the “rules” of drawing lately. Straight lines, full bodies, stick-like hair on people. She even has changed her sunshine’s to shooting rays, instead of zig-zag lightening bolt-like rays, shooting out in all directions. She is learning really fast…“Stay in the lines. Obey the rules. Fall in place. Look, act, […]
Charles Finney once said, “A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.” Every ending has a beginning. Every pruning has a new sprout reaching out for light. Every weary cloud has a sun waiting, a silver lining, hidden somewhere inside.And just like anything else, revival can carry us far from where God intended, if […]
One thing about being in Guatemala was that it was hot…really hot. Temperature’s surpassed a hundred, but it was the humidity that left us constantly drenched. We would take a shower, but moments after we would be soaked in moisture. We were close to the equator. And I knew it….every second….except one. One night while standing […]
Many were healed, transformed, and changed as revival struck our congregation. We went from six hundred people up to one thousand in attendance on Sundays. I had only been there, maybe a year. There were outreaches, conversions, discipleship, friendships being made. It was not uncommon to see people with Bibles spread out in every Starbucks, or […]