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...

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)...