The spiritual imperative of RECOGNIZING OUR INADEQUACY is misleading. To admit our INADEQUACY without God is so understated that it can cause us to miss that we are utterly, 100% HELPLESS without God.    INADEQUATE and HELPLESS without God is how I want to live out my faith every single day. Not just on Sundays. Not just when my spiritual equilibrium is in balance. Not just when my moods...

Comments from this ministry’s tribe of 1.1 Million online followers around the world are overwhelming positive for our 2021 series on committing to SPIRITUAL IMPERATIVES—what must be done. Not what we want to do or should do or try to do. What we MUST do. In January that was RELEASE CONTROL TO GOD. The imperative for February was REJECT THE WORLD. I am thankful that the faith walk of so many believers...

Why should we end this month’s spiritual imperative–REJECT THE WORLD–with a reminder to stay away from the world’s LOTTERY selling PERFECTION? Because the world and the Enemy win if we chase perfection instead of allowing GOD’S PEACE to invade our mind and penetrate our heart.    The WORLD has become a bright and shiny LOTTERY where the few people who ever win, eventually lose....

Two days left in our current exploration of the spiritual imperative: REJECT THE WORLD. I have two messages in mind that should send us into March with strong momentum for the next imperative: RECOGNIZE OUR INADEQUACY. But in the meantime let’s flip back to REJECTING THE WORLD and address TRUTH.    TRUTH has been under attack since we broke from God in the Garden. But the world has become...

To wrap up this month’s focus on REJECTING THE WORLD, we must address how COVID-19 and its long train of CHANGE has impacted our faith walk with Christ. There are plenty of roads to take in telling that story, but the one sitting atop my list today is how the world is running out of patience to deal with that CHANGE like a kid runs out of quarters to feed a hungry game at the local arcade.    A...

As we wrap up this month’s focus on the spiritual imperative of REJECTING THE WORLD, it’s important to destroy the misguided notion of WISDOM that rules the day on planet earth.    Please do not underestimate the importance of this step to INTENTIONALLY deactivate the world’s power and activate our faith to reach deeper spiritual maturity in Christ.    “I will destroy the wisdom...

Christians everywhere on the planet—of all ages and colors and in different life circumstances—want to REJECT THE WORLD and deepen their faith. That’s great! But it’s the flip side of that coin that concerns me—the HOW-TO ACTION STEPS we take to reject the world and activate our faith.   All Christians seem to be drawn toward DOING THINGS to reject the world and activate their faith. You know,...

beau·ty a combination of shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses.    Our spirit is infused with a rush of dopamine-driven joy when it confronts the beauty of a painting’s message and memory. The beauty of music’s rhythm and emotion. The beauty of watching the sun being swallowed by a darkened horizon.      But beauty is so much more than a means to a pleasurable...

The spiritual imperative of REJECTING THE WORLD is a life-long challenge and VERY DIFFICULT for Christians to achieve, right? Of course. But trying to figure out WHY that is the case makes it so much harder than it needs to be.    Fixating on the WORLD’s TRAPS that might swallow us on our faith journey is exactly what Satan wants us to think about—the world’s allure. The Enemy wants our...

We cannot discuss the spiritual imperative of REJECTING THE WORLD without paying a visit to the PASTURE OF PERFECTION. Let’s go there now.    Early in my faith walk I searched for the PERFECTION PASTURE day-in and day-out for over 10 years. You would think that after coming up empty so many times I would have waved a white flag and surrendered. But I didn’t.    I kept trying to...