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Grilling in my family involves both extremes and I’m in the middle. Diane likes it so rare it is hardly warm and Amanda wants hers well done. As for me, I’m sort of a medium guy. So, there I was the other night, staring at the steaks on the grill and an odd thought hit me… Read more

In this post, I reflect on how years of built-up judgment, anger, and hate had quietly filled the cargo hold of my spiritual life—leaving me stuck at the dock. But through the gentle guidance of the Holy Spirit, I was reminded that only God is meant to carry those burdens. It’s a candid moment years… Read more

The Word tells us that God wants our joy to be full, and that means we need olives and grapes in our life. Olive oil was used to make one’s face shine (Ps 104:15), and it became a sign of joy and gladness (Num 6:25-25); wine was also a symbol of joy. But despite the Word, there are far… Read more

Whether we like it or not, when we became betrothed to Jesus and committed to become His bride, we fully entered the battle for spiritual maturity. That is what walking out our salvation is all about. Like the Jewish bride in her betrothal, we are sewing our wedding dress as we work through our sanctification;… Read more

Having just lived through a personal revival that impacted all of Judah, king Hezekiah found himself facing Sennacherib and the Assyrian army that was bent on taking Jerusalem (2 Chron 32). Isn’t that what happens to us right after we experience a personal revival? The enemy immediately comes, bent on stealing away what God has… Read more

I woke up in the middle of the night and I heard a voice repeating the same thing repeatedly. It was a quiet but insistent voice and as I lay there waiting for something else it never came; just the same thing over and over. When I realized that the Lord was telling me something.… Read more

I want to take a few moments and look at one of the most important aspects of our Walk With God; making Jesus Lord of All. Many come to Him seeking salvation but little realize that in so doing they, by definition, are agreeing to make Him Lord of All. By faith we receive Him… Read more

I was once again reading a book by M.R. DeHaan that he published in 1950; The Jew and Palestine in Prophecy in which he details at length the meaning and understanding of the Burning Bush. And as we look at Israel today his words become even clearer to us some seventy-five years later. “The burning… Read more

In reviewing some notes that I had jotted down a long time ago I was once again struck by something that Pastor Eugene Peterson wrote that hit home again: “There are people who do not want us to be free. They don’t want us to be free before God, accepted just as we are by… Read more

1 Thess 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly … Rom 8:29 As you all know, our ministry is focused on the command we have been given to live the life of Christ we have been given; being conformed into His image. Yes, in God’s eyes it is a finished process; sanctified… Read more