Religion

“Destroy the foundation, the building weakens. Place a fork in the path, people stray.” For almost two hundred years America stayed the course until the “Rebellion of the Sixties” weakened the foundation and offered a different pathway. The rebellion that America suffered is often remembered as natural events that put a black eye on the…

In the last article, Submission Is Also About What We Allow In, we looked at guarding the heart and being willing to examine what we continually allow to influence the inner man. Near the end of that article, I touched on something that I want to spend more time with now because I think it…

Let’s take the first part of this article’s title, “Winning Unapologetically.” What comes to your mind first, Confidence or Arrogance? I suppose it would rest in the context in which it is being used. This over used cliché many times has hidden roots of false humility. Who apologizes for winning. I have never seen an…

I have been having nightmares for years now. Counseling and Jesus helped, but my thoughts are still dark. Just the other day when sleeping, I felt a dark presence. There was no one near me, but something was grabbing me. It had a mission to throw me off the top bunkbed. As I woke up,…

“God, when are you going to do something!” Many have voiced similar outcries never knowing that Father God has been working for them as the Lord of the Behind-the-Scenes director as we’ll cover coming up. Rain on cold pavement has a way of sharpening silence. Imagine yourself holding a folder, or a phone, or perhaps…

There is a difference between studying Scripture because we want to understand what Yahweh has said and continuing to study because we are hoping to find a way around what we have already understood. The difficult part is recognizing when we have crossed that line. Recently, I wrote an article called What It Means to…

Correction is one of those subjects that can become unbalanced very quickly in the Body of Christ. We can become so resistant to being challenged that anyone who questions us is immediately considered judgmental, religious, controlling, or offended. Yet correction can also be misused by people who insert themselves into places Yahweh never gave them…

There is a phrase in 1 Samuel 13 that I had read before, but I do not think I understood the weight of it until I began studying Saul more closely. Saul had been given an instruction. He knew what Samuel had told him to do, yet when the situation around him began changing, his…

There are times when disobedience is obvious. We know what Yahweh said, we know we did something different, and there really is not much confusion about it. But as I have spent time studying Saul in 1 Samuel 15, I have realized there is another kind of disobedience that concerns me much more. It is…

Growing up I always wanted to go into the military. As a young boy I would play “War” with the other kids in my neighborhood. Often, we would be the calvary, riding in at the last minute to save the town or fort. Sometimes, we were the defenders of the Alamo, and I would imagine…