All Christians–at one time or another, to one degree or another—are pecked by a pain I call FAITH FATIGUE. That’s been the case for me over the past few weeks. It has not stilled my faith, but it has prompted me to ask God for delivery from the funk. THE ANTIDOTE? Spiritual Discipline. I know…that […]
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Preparing for the late-July launch of my new book on AMAZON has brought many reader comments to my attention. The most common goes something like this: “I want to activate my faith, but I keep putting it off.” There was one that even wrote: “It’s on my bucket list.” These comments remind me of a
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Many of the 1000+ blogs I have written for Love God Fear Nothing are somehow—directly or tangentially–connected to the subject of PRAYER. But I have NEVER, until today, written about THANKING GOD FOR ANSWERED PRAYER. I cannot explain this subject’s absence, but I can tell you why it’s the subject of today’s blog: God answered
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Suddenly, Scripture began to stab at my heart, warning me to make a change … FAST! Paul wrote some stinging words to a compromising early church, yet I couldn’t help thinking he was talking directly to me: “Don’t be naïve. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to
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I know how to give my attitude toward EXPECTATIONS to God. But when the calendar turned to August this year, it was as if I had forgotten it all. I got KNOCKED DOWN emotionally when things weren’t going as planned. When people weren’t acting like I expected them to act. When my mood wasn’t on
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I just returned from spending a couple of weeks in Europe–my first vacation in seven years—and want to share something that God grabbed my attention with along the way. It’s a new way of looking at a verse I have read many hundreds of times: “A sensible person gathers the crops when they are ready;
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Of course they are! The problem is that we have unwittingly created a wall between pastors and lay leaders that is sometimes defined by the use of “theological bonafides.” What can be an impenetrable barrier keeps a believer’s calling and suitability to serve at bay. Throughout my 20 years as a Christian leader
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God’s Word is full of seemingly unending promises on the subject of worry, fear, and discouragement. It seems hard to believe that Christians could take these words to heart and still adopt the worry mode when encountering periods of distress. But that is the norm, not the exception. We allow our anxieties to
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, I want to draw attention to America’s Twin-Tower Values of Hard Work and Achievement There is nothing wrong with hard work. Ralph Waldo Emerson was right that “without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to
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Let me dive a little deeper by switching metaphors… We put ourselves at risk when we travel through life without paying attention to those important warning lights flashing their plea for attention on the dashboard. Our car may keep running, but eventually it will break down, and we will not know when it will
