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...

Rising to a morning sky struggling to light, I feel compelled to tell you “IT’S GOING TO BE OK.” It will be OK because CoronaVirus will not last. This is my message for today after writing for 10 days about living out our faith in the middle of a global pandemic. We covered topics like: Going beyond just GETTING THROUGH CoronaVirus and committing to WINNING THROUGH it through Christ. The need to...

JUST IN FROM OUR GLOBAL ONLINE TRIBE: Yesterday you wrote about selecting a verse from the Bible for the CoronaVirus pandemic and then claim it as the challenges come. You called it a “theme verse.” What is that? A theme verse is making scripture come alive in our HEART and activated in our LIFE through association with something specific. In this case, the current pandemic.    Here’s...

Man has always been on a hunt for an EASY LIFE with plenty of comfort and certainty; but no discomfort or uncertainty. CoronaVirus is just the latest, though severe, case of EASY being run out of town. I woke up this morning with a restive mind stuck on the confusing notion that we expect life to be EASY, while God expects us to seek his ENLIGHTENMENT.    It...

In a matter of weeks, the world’s operational code is being rewritten from beginning to end. How we interact is changing. How we earn and spend money…changing. How we look at life on earth…changing. Everything is changing.    The world is headed for a massive inflection point that will ANIMATE our future. REDIRECT our priorities. ACTIVATE our faith (if we allow Jesus to take over our control...