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…   ...

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 am...

As this yawning Thursday scurries to catch up from losing a day to remember our veterans, Christians are waking up LONELY. In fact, the percentage of people who report being LONELY continues its inexorable march toward 50%. Fueled by COVID-19, new research says 44% of respondents claim to be LONELY “more than occasionally.” There is a LONELINESS PANDEMIC sweeping through the land like a wind-swept...

I thought a lot yesterday about suffering and sacrifice. But that came late in the day when the screen of my mind’s cinema inched toward its fade to black. Earlier in the day, thoughts of it being “just another” Memorial Day were moving through my mind like Georgia fireflies dancing above a summer fire on Lake Allatoona. Sadly, the most memorable part of yesterday’s Memorial Day holiday for most people...

“Fake it ‘till you make it” (FIUYMI) is an English aphorism suggesting that if we “pretend” to feel or act a certain way, eventually the pretending will turn into reality. The term originated in 323 BC when Greek Philosopher Aristotle argued: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a certain way.” The term was lit up by pop culture in the 1970s and is alive and kicking...

“I want it now!” (IWIN) thinking has a vise-like hold on all of us. We know what we want, and we want it NOW. The best and most recent example of IWIN is our desperate pleas to shoo the pandemic out of town. We want the COVID-19 restrictions lifted NOW!    IWIN thinking has moved from a rare occurrence to a daily expectation. Once we have a taste of fast, we don’t want any part of slow....