spiritual maturity

We are living right now in a moment IDENTICAL to what the prophet Isaiah predicted. IDENTICAL to what John the Baptist experienced. And IDENTICAL to what countless other Christians have stared down for millennia. For context, let’s step back in time.    As prophesied in Isaiah 40:3-5, God sent John the Baptist to prepare the […]

The world is quickly running out of patience like a kid runs out of nickels on his first run to the mini-mart. Lock down and shut down have become trigger words that slice a piece off everyone. “REOPENING” is now a surreal soundtrack crackling in the background while we search for a switch to flip

Well before GPS cured our directional disease, captains of the sea used a SEXTON to “shoot the stars” at dawn and dusk to identify their navigational position. In almost every case, a course correction of some kind was needed.    Christians need to a sexton, too. But our sexton is God. And, yes, we need

A mentor and dear friend of mine halfway across the country just told me a story he calls “THE HARDEST DAY OF MY LIFE.” His powerful words and images stirred my emotions profoundly as I looked outside the window of my life and saw COVID-19 tanks rolling through and over everything everywhere. His story got

An insidious, white-noise HUM is racing across the globe and penetrating the souls of its inhabitants. Creating a mysterious torture chamber. Mounting an unrecognizable assault. Casting a dark force that blocks out all but a glint of God’s light. Here’s what Mr. Webster says about HUM: An unwanted, low-frequency, and continuous droning and vibrating sound.

This just in from our global online tribe: I put in a lot of effort to grow spiritually but my faith is stagnant, especially during the COVID-19. Doesn’t God see my effort? This is a powerful question that produces a scary answer.    Effort can be an imposter; even a fraud; always a chameleon; sometimes

A global mindset I call the “ERADICATION OF UNCERTAINTY” just left the launch pad in an explosion of fury that has produced a manic hunt for certainty and a determined drive to eliminate ambiguity. This “Eradicate Uncertainty Movement” has become a VIRUS that seeks to influence human behavior. A virus that has produced a broken

Sitting in our COVID-19 cages is “forcing” all of us to think about things that have been ignored for a long time.   It has been a welcome exercise of enlightenment for me.    This morning when God took his director chair and called out ACTION for a new day, I pounded my coffee to

Over this past weekend I thought about Christians, including myself at times, who are “WHITEKNUCKLING” their way through this COVID-19 nightmare. WHITEKNUCKLING = extreme excitement, fear, apprehension, tension, or stress. Think roller coasters careening around sharp corners and airplanes shaking and bouncing in a storm of turbulence.    Gripping something so tight that our knuckles lose

I woke up from another restless night with this thought sliding across my mind’s dance floor: Most Christians are “SHAKABLE.” (Yes, shakable is a real word that means “capable of being weakened.”) I am sure that SHAKABILITY would never have slid off my mind’s conveyer belt without the CoronaVirus challenge. That had to be the