Keeping problems and difficulties to yourself is a dangerous way to live. You and I cannot bottle up within us the problems, adversities, and sorrows that have affected us. To use the old phrase, we need to, “get some things off our chest.”
Hurricane Florence: 200 Chaplains on Standby; Residents Trusting God
How to Live for One Thing
Do you really think life can be about one thing? In a world of so many options, how do we focus on what’s really important? Can experiencing God help us live confidently for Him?
The Apostle Paul, who wrote much of the New Testament, addresses these issues.
The Word
In the third chapter of the letter to the Philippians, Paul says that although he had many reasons to have “confidence in the flesh,” he counted “all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:4, 8).
Slowing Down to Hear God's Voice
Twenty-One Words
In 1871 a young medical student was worried and upset over his future, like so many of us he was overthinking his path, “what area of medicine should I get into, what direction should I take.” Questions and thoughts like this are not uncommon but if they occupy all of our emotional real estates they leave no room for God.
Parenting Unto Godly Dating and Marriage
Outside of the decision to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior and live a surrendered life to Him, the next most important decision made will be who one chooses to marry and share their life with. In twenty-two years of full time pastoring, I’ve seen too many Christian young people derailed from their destiny by marrying someone who did not share an equal commitment to Jesus.
Memorial Day
4 Pastoral Challenges in the End Times
How Singing the Word Strengthened My Faith
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am fluent in “Christianese“—that language Christians speak when referring to or describing all things related to their faith. Having married into a family whose members all speak multiple languages, I have learned that the best way to learn a new language is full immersion, leading to understanding by necessity.
Imparting a Legacy of Prayer to Our Children
A new level of prayer the Lord was inviting me and my family into began with a praying mantis perched on our suburban Toronto doorstep every morning for three weeks. “Odd,” I thought. Praying mantises (green insects with little “hands” clasped in prayer) may be found in farmers’ fields but do not normally come into the city and particularly do not arrive at the same door for three weeks in a row.