I woke up this morning thinking about LOVE in a world that seems to be making a hard turn toward HATE. Without love and stirred to hate now more than ever before, the world has responded by “CHASING COMFORT” to escape life’s pain. Try to guess the top three items sold in American supermarkets during the peak pandemic weeks and then later during the world’s outcry after the senseless murder of George...

Have YOU ever hit ROCK BOTTOM? You know…the point where life cannot get worse. Nothing good left to lose. No depth lower to fall. Hitting ROCK BOTTOM is a wake-up call and strength-summoning moment to interrupt our life’s journey. An option to travel on a new road without the possibility of going back.    ROCK BOTTOM does not have to be a dramatic story of addiction, sex, drugs, rock-n-roll,...

This just in from our global online tribe: My prayers feel weak and it’s like God is not listening and that makes me pray less. Can you help me? Welcome!    You are now an official member of the prayer-is-tough club. All Christians pass through our group at one point or another. The good news is that most of them understand what makes prayer difficult and eventually learn how to get past...

My favorite version of the ROCK SOUP fable centers on a time when there was a great famine and a stranger came through a village looking for room and board. He was told about the famine and encouraged to keep moving. But he pushed back, saying, “I have everything to make ROCK SOUP for everyone.”    Wrestling a grit-encrusted black pot from his wagon, he quickly built a fire and started...

While coaxing my rested frame from its slumber this morning it hit me that today was the day to introduce a story that I have been waiting 23 years to write. It is a story about my DEAD faith and a commitment to ACTIVATE it 23 years ago this month.    Please keep reading! A few paragraphs down from here you will see what I wrote 23 years ago as a prayer to God for my life.    But...

I just discovered the most powerful prayer hack ever. Here’s the story… Just one of the ways COVID-19 has changed our life comes from the government’s instruction to wash our hands throughout the day for 20 SECONDS each time. That’s an eternity!    We’re told to count the seconds by singing the happy birthday song TWICE. I gave up that silly dance like I would drop a baked potato coming...

We stand today at a historic fork in the road. A fork of such great magnitude that it appears just three or four times every century. Choosing the RIGHT road at some of these forks is done without debate. But at many other forks, choosing the WRONG road wins out when lost souls yield to trance-inducing control that forces everyone down “their road.” Though rare, there are times when the crowd says...

The world has STOPPED as if someone hit PAUSE during a NETFLIX blockbuster. And every Christian on the planet needs to STOP right now, too. What began with a cold-blooded homicide in Minneapolis has exploded into mayhem. Protesters and Police. Looters and larcenists.    That’s sad, of course. But we need to STOP trying to analyze the differences between the protesters (GOD BLESS THEM) and...

This just in from our GLOBAL ONLINE TRIBE: How do you keep your faith so focused day-after-day? This is a great question!    The focus part speaks to spiritual discipline. The heart and habits of a disciple.    The day-after-day part is also all about DISCIPLINE.    That’s the answer to the question–DISCIPLINE. But there is a much DEEPER MESSAGE to consider…    Focusing...

When I pulled my weary frame out of bed this morning to confront another day, I was greeted by a question that stirred my senses and got me riffing like Neil Young “rocking in a free world” at Staples Center. It was, at least for me, a totally new way of looking at the HAPPY/SAD NEXUS in our lives. Here it is: Why do Christians seem to always feel their SADNESS, but rarely celebrate HAPPINESS? I...