The world loves it when Christians crash due to their sinful choices and become a corrupt spring that produces impure water.    “Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.” Proverbs 25:26    Paul taught Timothy that a righteous man in Christ must guard both his personal and spiritual life. That he must rely on the power of God’s Word...

CAUTION! This month’s spiritual imperative–REJECT THE WORLD—is one YOU are more likely to SKIP than most other topics that deal with your Christian faith. PLEASE DON’T.    Why do we minimize God’s call to REJECT THE WORLD? Because:    “We don’t have a CHOICE.”     “It won’t get ME.”    “The world is FUN.”    Please read on. You may KNOW...

Life in the 21st Century today is a terrifying roller-coaster ride rumbling through a lingering COVID nightmare; Washington D.C. roiling in chaos; dizzying technological advances; and a pall of uncertainty that colors all our circumstances.    The headlines scrolling across our phone suggest that the world is falling apart. Society’s moral code is being rewritten from stem to stern. Suicides...

 I won’t put it off any longer!    It’s time to toss you one of the most important parts of this month’s spiritual imperative–REJECT THE WORLD. Revealing that subject to you now will come as no surprise to anyone because we have all heard its pitch. It’s called the PATHETIC PROSPERITY PROMISE.    Before thoughts start rolling out of my mind on this topic, we need to...

God made us to doubt ourselves and never doubt HIS TRUTH, but today we have that script playing in REVERSE! We are focused on ME, ME, ME and easily forget about the Lord’s divine plan for our life. The result of living for ME, ME, ME? It is impossible to meet our spiritual imperative (what must be done) of REJECTING THE WORLD.    Make no mistake, humility does not come easily. Our earthly...

It’s a tough job for me to write about this month’s spiritual imperative (what must be done)—REJECT THE WORLD. My struggle to find a compelling message comes from the environment Christians live in today on planet earth. It’s an environment that has believers in perpetual free-fall through a secular world pushing relativism for everything. You know: “if it feels good, do it. After all, everybody is...

There is little doubt that the world is being turned upside down by algorithms that are reshaping life on planet earth. Affected are how we travel, eat, shop, work, recreate, date, bank, learn, and get entertained. And that’s the SHORT list!    The subject of TECHNOLOGY was one of the first to enter my mind’s cinema when I set out to focus this month on the imperative (what must be done)...

Last month’s focus on the imperative (what must be done) of FULLY RELEASING CONTROL of our life to God has us moving rhythmically down life’s lane. But that lane cuts right through the WORLD and its hazards, hardships, and hurts. That’s why the natural next step this month is to stress a second imperative I call REJECT THE WORLD.    The best way to kick off that imperative is by realizing...

After wrestling with how to fully RELEASE CONTROL of our life to Jesus for the past 30 days, today we close out that effort by focusing on the foundational, keystone habit—embedding GOD’S WORD in our head and heart.    Early in my faith walk I thought memorizing Scripture was all about showing people how close we are to God—a Spiritual Show Off. WRONG!    I have since learned...

Life on planet earth has always been tough. But there is something different about RIGHT NOW that startles our attention away from a peaceful pasture and puts it on zip line to a dark forest of fear. The pandemic seems to have dropped a net over all of us and made us question our safety. Wonder about our security. Tremble over our future.    If there was ever a time where we needed a strong...