“Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God” (Ruth 1:16) Who has made the most impact on your life spiritually? Is there any person whose walk with God demonstrated such excellence that you wanted to emulate them in every…
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again, rather, the Spirit you receive brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father” (Romans 8:14-15). Today is my…
How often do you pray before your day begins? If you do pray early in the morning, do you ask God for divine encounters, lives he wants you to connect with, or touch for him? The divine encounters don’t have to occur at a formal event. They can happen in the grocery store, a department…
Bzzzz. A pesky mosquito buzzed around my ear, waking me up in the middle of the night last night. As I write this post, he continues to taunt me today, by my ear, in my face and is causing my skin to itch. The mosquito is one byproduct of the never-ending rain North Texas has…
“Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor” (1 Peter 2:17). The final David Letterman Show this week brought back a flood of memories. As a young sportscaster in Chattanooga, Tennessee, it was Letterman who kept me company when I’d get off work at 11:00 p.m. I had…