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...

LOVE GOD FEAR NOTHING’S 1.1 Million-strong global tribe has committed to REJECT THE WORLD this month, but our media-driven and comparison-crazy society is making it tough! The world wants us to give up on this spiritual imperative—what must be done—and, instead, chase EVERYTHING. Have EVERYTHING. Be EVERYTHING. Yes, even in the middle of a global pandemic. Heck, maybe especially in a global pandemic.    We...

My focus this month on the spiritual imperative to REJECT THE WORLD has taken us down a darkened road that I know all Christians have traveled. That’s the bad news—we often roll down this dark road as if we’re on the world’s cruise control.    But it hit me this morning that we’ve largely covered the “spiritual mechanics” of REJECTING THE WORLD on that dark road. But traveling in the opposite...

Wisdom can be found—and lives forever–between the covers of a Bible. But getting that wisdom from our head, to our heart, and then manifest in our behavior is far from automatic. It’s the opposite. But God helps us in Proverbs where we learn that wisdom comes to us when we park in GOD’S GARAGE every day.      “Those who listen to me will be happy—those who stay at my door every...

Yesterday I was sitting on the sofa with my laptop connecting two scarred but sturdy knees and tossing talk radio up to my half-listening ears. I was startled out of that state when a commercial began playing behind its amped-up volume and screeching noise. And then a pop-up video  for a Mediterranean Cruise began to play in response to an earlier Google search I made for “impacts on travel during...