I woke up one morning singing a song inside my head that I learned in a dream from the night before. When I awoke from my dream at 2:30am, I immediately went to record the song on my iPhone so I wouldn't forget it. The neat thing about the song I learned was that this...

All through Jesus’ life and ministry he had people who believed in Him and supported Him, and also people who doubted him and mocked Him. I went through the gospels one time to mark the places where it was recorded where one group of people believed in Him while...

One of my favorite Bible verses for men is found in the book of Job. Near the end of Job's trials, after all of his friends had tried to "comfort" him and counsel him, God finally showed up on the scene in a whirlwind (a tornado!) In Job 38:3, God said to Job, "Now...

I introduced a new game to my elementary kids at church one night. Each kid was given a large paper cup that they were supposed to balance on top of their head. The objective of the game was to try to be the last person remaining with a cup still on their head when...

I love it when the light comes on in a child’s mind and heart. I was teaching my elementary kids at church from Acts 14, explaining how God had entrusted Paul and Barnabas to share His message with the world, specifically to the people of Lystra. While in Lystra, Paul...

God took a handful of dirt and fashioned it into His image and likeness. He called His creation “MAN.” But man wasn’t alive yet. He wasn’t alive until God BREATHED into his nostrils the breath of life. When Satan came to the Garden of Eden, he manifested himself in...

I ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant and two of the managers were standing near my table in a discussion. I couldn’t help but overhear as they discussed some kind of repair work that needed to be done. At first, the conversation was completely in Spanish, but then I...

I was reading three different stories from the Gospels one night before going to bed. In each story I noticed a connecting thought … there was someone trying to get to Jesus but couldn’t because other people were in the way. The three stories were: The woman with the...

I was reaching for the bar of soap one morning and noticed that there was a big gash on one of its corners. It looked like someone dropped the soap on the floor. The huge gash in its side gave testimony to the trauma it had been through. But, I didn't throw the bar...