Recently while attending a conference in California, Starla and I had the opportunity to go out one afternoon and hike a few trails. This is one of the things that we love to do together. We made our way to a place called Indian Canyon. As we started out on […]

Four DECLARATIONS from the prayer life of Nehemiah that get results. Declare God’s goodness. Neh. 1:5-6a  Then I said: “Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and […]

Recently I spoke at Southwestern Assemblies of God University Chapel. I challenged students who were struggling about the call of God on their lives to come forward and expect a touch from God. A young lady came up to me afterwards and told me how she felt compelled to come […]

Would you like your day to be better? There is a simple solution for making your day better. Simply, make someone else’s day better. Ephesians 6:8 says, “The Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do.” In other words, “What you make happen for others, God will make […]

I saw someone the other day who looked troubled. So I asked them, “What seems to be the problem?” They said, “The problem is, that I’m in a hurry, and God is not.” We’ve probably all felt like that before. I’m sure we all have felt like God’s timing was […]

Kevin Carter could never escape his continent’s turmoil. For a decade, the photographer captured vivid pictures of repression and strife in his native South Africa. He went to famine-racked Sudan and came upon a starving toddler stalked by a vulture. He photographed the scene–an image that won that year’s Pulitzer […]

People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. Phil 2:20-21 NLT I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. 21 All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. Did you know that […]

A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on. After his Mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said: For […]

Champions are formed from the fabric of failure. What does that mean? The greatest lessons are learned from the losses and the mistakes that we make. These failures make us stronger, wiser and simply better. My greatest accomplishment came from losing. Matthew 16:25 “For whoever wants to save their life […]

I read where a survey showed that 90% of accidents on staircases involved either the top or the bottom stairs. This information was fed into a computer to find out how stairway accidents could be reduced. The computer’s answer: “Remove the top and bottom stairs.” I feel like that is […]