A GLIMPSE OF THE THIEF
I talked to a guy who kicked a five-year addiction to cocaine. When I asked him how he did it, I suppose I expected him to tell me some intense story of months in rehab, of pain and agony, of fortitude and willpower or maybe even some kind of miraculous intervention...
Remembering Archie
I was working in my home office and my dog, Archie, was lying on a mat in the room next to my office. I got up and headed to the back bathroom to take a shower. After my shower, I walked out of the back bathroom and there was Archie … lying on the floor outside the...
God is COUNTING on YOU!
One billion .... that's 1,000,000,000 ... it's an awfully big number. How big is it? Well, it would take approximately 31 years to count from one to one billion (giving one second to count each number along the way). Now, there are 8 billion people living on planet...
“My Dad is Gonna Kill Me!” – (A Testimony about the power of prayer)
A few years ago, I had a Back-to-School Pool Party for my Elementary kids at church. One of the boys had been swimming in the pool for a couple of minutes when I heard him say, "Oh no! My Dad is gonna KILL ME!" He got out of the pool and reached in his bathing suit...
Give Me the Bad News First
A friend called me and said, "I've got good news, and I've got bad news." I replied, "Give me the bad news first" and he did so. After the bad news was out of the way, all the angst and any fear that I had was gone because I knew the good news was all that was left....
DISARMED BY A PETUNIA
I was driving down the road and was approaching a house that looked, to me, like the typical “crack house.” As I got closer to the house I noticed a man standing on the front porch. A cigarette drooped from his mouth. His scraggly beard, sunken eyes, weathered skin...
THE FILLING
Sarah, Hannah, Rebekah, Rachel, Manoah’s wife, and Elizabeth … Do you know what these six women of the Bible had in common? The Bible says that they were all BARREN, which means that they weren’t able to have children … they couldn’t get pregnant … their wombs were...
“DON’T YOU CARE?”
If you don’t get upset about a situation when others are upset and panicking, sometimes it can be perceived by others as apathy ... you might be looked upon as being "uncaring." But, that’s not always the case. There are two particular instances in the Gospel stories...
Grow!
Someone asked me a very interesting question: "If God wants us all to be Christ-like why doesn't He just MAKE us that way?" I answered the question with two questions of my own: "If God wants all of us to be adults, why aren't we born adults ... and if God wants...