How to Turn Your Bitterness into a Blessing
Do you feel like you’ve been “dealt a bad hand?” Circumstances have been reversed? On a streak of bad luck?
Try these secrets for turning “bitterness into blessing”!
You Need a Rock When You Feel Insecure
Insecurity, in all of us, is a huge problem. It pressures us to act like someone we are not in order to get approval.
This 8.5 MILLION pound boulder recently smashed into a highway in Colorado. It’s so big they are building a new road around it! Somehow, it reminds me of God Himself who called Himself “THE ROCK.”
Do You Still Have Your First Love for God?
The 7 churches of Revelation have always fascinated me. They have one phrase repeated seven ways: “Watch yourself.”
We in the modern day church must check our “vitals” continually.
Ask yourself these seven questions to be sure your love for God is still lined up:
How To Stay in the Will of God
The will of God: Is it a “path” or an “environment”? It’s BOTH. You have to “find” God’s path. You have to “follow” God’s path by your attitude.
Israel “found” God’s path from Egypt to Palestine (the cloud and fire). They could not “follow” it because of their attitudes.
Here are the 6 ways from 1 Thessalonians 5 that will help you to “follow” the will of God after you “find” it:
In a Trial? 5 Things That Will Build Your Endurance
Trials are inevitable. Bearing them is not.
I’ve been through a lot of trials in my life and, by God’s grace, come through on the other side.
Here are 5 things that help me “bear up” when passing through a trial:
What Do You Do When You Don't Know the Will of God?
It’s tough when you want to know God’s will about a certain situation but there is no clear direction. You pray, you read…but still no direction.
Think about these things when you don’t know God’s will:
How to Watch Over Your Heart Like a Hawk
“The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart.”
Somebody’s heart has gotten hard. Somebody’s heart has become selfish or impure. It may be MINE.
Here are 7 areas I try to continually look into the mirror of Scripture so I can watch over my heart like a hawk:
A Note of Sanity in a Mad Dash for THINGS
People broke through doors, overturned displays, ran through aisles and pulled down televisions on to people’s heads and into a heap on the floor.
Black Friday. How did we go from “Seasons Greetings” to “Seasons Beatings?”
Here are some good perspectives to keep during this most blessed season:
Think of Grace as Your Last Minute Reprieve
Some see grace as your constant “get out of jail free” pass. We all do, of course, need grace day-by-day for all our failures and shortcomings.
The Seven Lamps of the Spirit and How They Transform Your Life
I was always puzzled to read in the Book of Revelation about the “seven lamps of the Spirit” before the throne.
I finally figured out what they are: aspects of the Spirit’s work in your life.
Here they are and what they practically can do in your life:
How I Follow the Holy Spirit
I’ve been a Christian for over 55 years and a pastor for 40 years. If I could tell you one of my greatest secrets of success, it would be learn to stay in step with the Holy Spirit.
How do we walk with Him?
The 5 Awesome Attributes of God's Love for You
Every human being wants the answer to the question, “Does God really love me?”
I can tell you right now, He deeply loves YOU. I can prove that to you by a simple study of God’s own Name.
How to Build 4 Awesome Spiritual Habits into Your Life
Habits are more than just discipline. They are based on REWARD.
I have learned the secret of all spiritual discipline. It’s not pain: It’s pleasure!
Here are my top 4 habits and why I LOVE them:
“How to Make Easter Real in Your Life Every Day”
Easter is my favorite season. I love Christmas as the “beginning” and I love Easter as the “completion.”
How does Easter affect my thoughts, my relationships, and my choices…EVERY DAY?
So You Want to be 99 and Blameless?
Someone great departed Earth last week: Billy Graham’s spirit left his frail body and went to heaven.
He will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol this week. All Congressional business will stop those two days. How did this simple North Carolina pastor dominate the world’s religious headlines for almost 70 years?
"Integrity."
You Can Be in a War...and Never Know it
They call it stealth warfare.
Bombers that can fly without radar detection. Special ops who can slip in and out without detection.
There is an ultimate war you may have never known was happening all around you: spiritual warfare.
10 Things You Need to Know About Yourself
“Know thyself.” This simple little phrase was spoken by 11 different Greek sages, including Socrates.
“Keep watch over yourself.” This was spoken by Paul the apostle to the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:28).
Here are 10 things I monitor on my internal “dashboard”:
How To Overcome Your Personal Fear
FEAR is the biggest enemy to your future.
It comes in many forms, mainly having to do with your future: failure, rejection, lack, or death (to name a few). Abram was mighty in battle yet his deepest fear was not having a successor.
How will you overcome the fears that limit you?