I expected to see the armless, legless, Nick Vujicic, play on a big screen his God-given feats; ski-diving, skate-boarding, surfing, doing things unbelievable because of a “good attitude” and “positive thinking”. After all, isn’t He a speaker, an author, a celebrity of sorts, motivating people to, “do great things”? But, he didn’t. In fact, I went […]
Jenner, Media Frenzies, & When Our Spiritual Eyes Are Influenced By Gravity
So, He modeled in Vanity Fair, as a girl. Are we really all that shocked? Don’t we know that darkness seeks hard to tuck itself tight inside holiness, split apart and divide families, take the innocent and devour them slowly? Did we really expect anything different? Satan came to steal, kill, & destroy. And doesn’t that […]
The Duggars, Church Sandals, And Digesting The Character Betrayal Of Others. UNITE Link Party
“He is so anointed”, they told me. Â So, we drove nearly to Canada to see this tattooed man standing in a group of maybe a hundred people. He walked up the isle right beside me. Â Talked of his Rolex and how people in the congregation can give him another…or fill his pockets with money…if they wanted. […]
Getting Pulverized On The Front Lines? Ten Reasons to Stand and Fight
Drums pounding, enthusiasm rising, battle lines drawn, warriors clothing themselves in armor, charging forward toward the front lines. The momentum is contagious. Cheering, shouting, and promises of victory drives the multitude onward expectant toward the victory. However, the front lines are loud, messy. Shouting fades and all that’s seen is pain and difficulty. Doubts start trickling […]
How To Rise From the Mud and Mire
They say Auschwitz has this eerie stillness, this somber silence as you step on the grounds of this World War II consecration camp. We’re in Arlington, driving to a hike with waterfalls along a river. Google says they’re remarkably beautiful. So, we go. Â Hoping to escape it all. But on our journey, a familiar cliff reaches […]
The One Secret Act Guaranteed To Change Your World
“What is this?” I stand in a driveway off of the three-mile-long country road we live on. College age men. Laughing. Playing volley ball. I had followed the white trucks, the mini-vans, the cars, saying, “God Will Provide”, “International Missions”, and the most bold of all, “Jesus Heals”. On a road filled with horses […]