Just in from our global online tribe: “Ever since COVID-19 hit, I have had more negative and scary feelings than at any time in my life. I’m trying to stay positive but not succeeding. Help!” Welcome to a very popular club of Christians around the world who are awash in pandemic-induced feelings!    We are under attack from feelings that typically start with irritation but then quickly move...

As the COVID-19 VISE squeezes the world, we are all being individually dive-bombed by burdens buzzing around every part of our life. A new twist seems to pop up on our life’s screen each and every day. While trying to “survive” this pounding and relentless attack, we can easily lose sight of how God wants us to react to the BURDENS it produces…    He wants us to take each and every burden...

The CoronaVirus nightmare is draining personal ENDURANCE TANKS across the planet. Many people are running on empty and shivering in fright as they search frantically for a HOPE STATION to refill their endurance tank. Why not go straight to the endurance pump? Why do we have to get our endurance from the HOPE STATION?    Two reasons” 1) Hope PRODUCES endurance; and 2) Endurance is the RESULT...

This just in from our global online tribe: Easter Sunday yesterday was the high point of my year, as it is every year. I wish I could feel my faith every day like I feel it at Easter. Why is that so difficult? This QUESTION is the perfect pivot point for the “day after Easter.”    My ANSWER starts with the three most important words we heard yesterday on Easter Sunday–the LAST three...

This just in from our global tribe of 600,000 online followers: What should I pray for while waiting for things to get back to the way they were before the pandemic hit? This is a fair question that everyone on the planet is considering. But it can be dangerous if along the way we fear everything and fantasize about a normalcy that will never be found.    That is certainly the case now as...

Every day we wake up to a new impact produced at the CoronaVirus factory. You know them by now: Revised infection rates; new stay-at-home restrictions; and bleak economic reports of pain rolling through American households like a California earthquake. But yesterday a NEW impact passed through my mind’s cinema like an uninterrupted cable tv news crawl. It was the RAMPANT RISE of misguided noise I...

The COVID-19 Pandemic is the storm of a lifetime for most of us. We are all swimming in a slipstream of UNCERTAINTY the likes of which I have never seen in my lifetime. This global storm is indiscriminate in the people it spears. Blind to the socio-economic lane it travels. Resolute to find two vulnerable lungs in the life it wants to destroy.    The COVID-19 conveyor belt operates 24/7...

Our level of FEAR during the CoronaVirus crisis:   Reveals the sturdiness of our faith’s foundation. Forces us to confront reality. Tests our calling by God. We are in a war right now with CoronaVirus and our LEVEL OF FEAR will play a dominant role in determining how Christians come out of the mayhem.    Let’s start with GOD’S IDEAL position for his believers to take in the...

Just in from our global online tribe is the following question which is representative of several hundred others: How do we know what to pray for and concentrate on during the CoronaVirus crisis? There is no specific “answer” to that question, but the general response would be to GROW CLOSER TO CHRIST. How that plays out specifically will be different for all of us. Here’s my own personal goal:    I...

I didn’t sleep much last night. Not sure I slept at all, actually. After escaping my bed’s sleepless grip, I was surprised that the day’s motor turned over immediately. As the dashboard’s lights flickered to life, one word raced across the navigation screen–INTENTIONALITY. My first move was to check in with Mr. Webster for his formal definition: being deliberate or purposeful.    That...