This just in from our global online tribe: “I think I think too much about being a Christian. Is that possible?” YES, it’s not only possible–all believers are vulnerable to thinking too much about their faith walk. OVERTHINKING anything in life drains us emotionally; produces a sense of being frozen in place; and creates a stream of anxiety that can easily lead to depression. But OVERTHINKING...

BIBLE ILLITERACY is at epidemic proportions on planet earth. The cause in many cases can be connected to the marginalization of Scripture in favor of singing contemporary songs, attending fellowship barbeques, and taking study classes. That’s DISPOSABLE-DISCIPLINE–do your best to be spiritually nourished, but you do not have to measure your performance. We are experiencing a famine of Bible...

From the time the very first day our modern media factory began operating 24/7, it has been telling us to GO WITH THE FLOW. And we have largely obeyed. Society makes its recommended FLOW–almost always in the waters of materialism and worldly success–seem “right” to keep us from going counter-culture and fighting the flow.    What society never tells us is that floating with the...

Nobody wants to get anything with an ‘ITIS’ at the end of the diagnosis, right? These invaders have names like tonsillitis, bronchitis, and arthritis. But those are just three sources of ‘ITIS’ (INFLAMMATION) that produce pain. The swelling that comes with an ‘ITIS’ is our response to an inflammation invasion. It is our white blood cells telling the body’s immunity protection crew to fight off the...

The word TRIGGERING is front and center today as a way of describing something that prompts people to react. “Don’t say that or do this because it will trigger pain or bad memories in people.” That got me thinking this morning that the word SIN falls under that definition because it triggers a reaction in Christians. When the word SIN enters the mind of a Christian, it triggers FEAR–flight or...

This just in from our global tribe of 800,000+ followers: I pray a lot but the wrong pictures and thoughts keep coming into my mind. Does that mean my faith is weak? What it means is you are like every believer on the planet.    Every Christian is subject to the images and thoughts you bring up in your question. Especially today where cosmetically appealing slop is supported by a media that...

Popular songs have burnished the word LOVE into the fabric of society—from the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” to Elvis telling us we “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and, of course Foreigner proclaiming “I Want To Know What Love Is.” For Christians, love is the very essence of our faith walk.    God’s love is so great that he gave his only Son to die for our sins and...

In order to fully comprehend and appreciate HOW MUCH God has given us, we need to intentionally and repeatedly remember HOW LITTLE we had without him. All Christians at some point will BLUR THEIR FAITH LINE and lose touch with how much they have been forgiven. How much they have in Christ. How blessed they are to be a new creature in him (2 Corinthians 5:17)    Here’s how the apostle Paul...

My 2020 LABOR DAY saw multiple glimpses–mostly on television—of people using the holiday weekend to escape the confining pain that comes from viewing their WORK as a SANCTUARY. It was a powerful experience watching the screenplay of so many lives unfold and then praying for the individual cast members. But it all felt like a sham. A dangerous dance with delusion. A frustrating façade of faces...

On this weekend when we celebrate LABOR and pause to consider “WHAT we do” and “WHY we do it,” I am thinking about Andy Griffith. Honest. Why him? Because I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show as a kid and was mesmerized by those peaceful scenes in Mayberry with friends sitting on the porch at dusk WITHOUT a vibrating smartphone shaking their glass of tea.   With that peaceful remembrance...