Posts with the category “daniel-fast-2023”

Life in the day and hour that we are living seems chaotic and out of control. It seems that the odds are stacked against us, especially for people of faith. The tide has turned and is turning to a gre...  Read More

There’s this old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” If one picture is worth a thousand words then it goes without saying that a bunch of pictures are worth even more. Put a bunch of pictur...  Read More

There is foolishness that seems like wisdom and then there is wisdom that appears to be foolish. The foolishness that appears like wisdom is always rooted in either arrogance or ignorance. Arrogance, ...  Read More

One of the most crucial decisions that any of us will make in life is “Who will I listen to?” When we are young, we have an innocence and naïveté about us. We really don’t think much about what we hea...  Read More

Have you ever started something that you haven’t finished? Maybe as you’re reading this you are staring at an unfinished project and it is talking to you right now. We all start things. Some of us con...  Read More

Endeavoring to live a Christ-like life and helping others to do the same can sometimes seem like a challenging task. Paul talks about the hard work it takes to preach Christ’s message. He also talks a...  Read More

People love secrets. What we love even more are secrets revealed. We have television shows, YouTube channels, and podcasts that are dedicated to revealing secrets. Trade secrets, cooking secrets, secr...  Read More

The tension between rights and responsibility is at best a tenuous one. Godly people need to be taught the tension between rights versus responsibility. The culture in which we are soaked in is filled...  Read More

What a day and age we live in! A day where knowledge is exponentially increasing. Regardless of what field of endeavor you find yourself in, there is a constant progression of thought and information;...  Read More

As a kid growing up in a home with other siblings, especially siblings close in age, the phrase, “You’re not the boss of me!” was very often heard and expressed. Humans don’t like to be told what to d...  Read More

How do you see Jesus? Before you answer this question, take a moment and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be completely, ruthlessly honest with yourself in how you answer. This is, I believe, the most ...  Read More

The greatest transference happened more than 2000 years ago. It happened on a hill. A hill called Golgotha outside the walls of the city of Jerusalem. It was and is and will forever be the greatest re...  Read More

There is power available to us so that we can endure, but it isn’t simply power, it is all of God’s glorious power! We don’t have to be a statistic of failure. We can live in the glorious victory of J...  Read More

Many people fail to finish the way God intended for them to finish. A very sad and alarming thing we see in our Christian circles is the constant changing of the landscape. What do I mean by that? Som...  Read More

There is a phrase or saying in our culture that has become very prevalent. It has become such a part of our culture that we also find it communicated in church circles. But more than it is just being ...  Read More

The message of the Good News that impacted the people of Colossae is not a different message than what we are responsible to proclaim to the world today. They heard because someone was willing to prea...  Read More

Somebody has got to share the Good News! What good is it to have the best news the world could ever hear, but nobody is willing to tell it? For the church in Colossae their messenger was a guy by the ...  Read More

I would shudder to think where I would be without the Good News. We are living in a world and a world system where we are receiving more bad news than anyone can stomach. All we have to do is watch an...  Read More

You can live 40 days without food and three days without water, but you cannot live a moment without hope. You need hope to cope. The challenge is to discern between what is true hope and what is fals...  Read More

One of the most powerful songs in the OT is the song that David sang to the Lord when the Lord delivered him from all his enemies. It is found in 2 Samuel 22 and in Psalm 18. His men had slain four mo...  Read More

The start of something new can be filled with excitement, trepidation, hope, anxiety, anticipation, or even dread. Something happens to many of us as we approach or enter a new year. We are hopeful. W...  Read More