In recent times of trial, I was looking through a study of Ephesians by Warren Wiersbe and read the following words: "Christ is equipping us for our walk and our work here on earth. To do this, He uses three special tools: the Word (1 Thes. 2:13 And we thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as th...

Learning to walk as Jesus walked is hard. I don't just mean emotionally hard, but physically hard. I hope you know what I mean by that. My present circumstances are forcing me to realize something I desperately need to understand: I need Jesus. More and more I desire to have meaningful, Spirit led conversations with my co-workers and students. I need Jesus. I want to love ...

So a little bit ago I whined to my wife and said "I'm supposed to be blogging but I don't have anything to say." She responded with "Why don't you write about that?" I laughed and began brushing my teeth and started thinking "that's not a bad idea." After all, there is a pretty catchy song out right now called Just say Jesus. Part of the lyrics go "When you don't know what...

Does anyone remember the 90s song by Audio Adrenaline titled My Worldview? The chorus went like this: My world viewit's how I see the worldit's how I look at youMy world viewit's how I see the worldwould you like to see it to?My world view Our worldview is the lens through which we see life. It's what shapes our attitudes and actions. Every person regardless of wheth...

Anybody older than 40 probably knows or has at least heard the song "Homeward Bound" by Simon Garfunkel. Being musicians and on the road most of their career they knew the feeling of being homeward bound as they longed for the month and day they would go home until the next tour started. I can only imagine how our men women in uniform can relate to that song. As I write ...

Today I was traveling most of the day. Started by getting into Dallas about 1:00am then off to Minneapolis in the afternoon and ended up in Toronto, Canada (Don't-cha know) tonight. Besides being vividly reminded why I don't travel for a living I was also struck by the countless faces I saw. Empty, stressed, bewildered, disillusioned, tearful, sorrowful. There were a few ...

There are so many memories and so many faces that fill those memories. I can't begin to express how honored I feel to be a small part of what God has done and is doing. Truly only the King of all kings can take credit for all that's happened in these past 10 years through wvBc, Sunago Surprise, the Christian Liberty Center Church, and Sunago El Mirage which includes the Li...

A few weeks ago, our pastor's sermon title was, "Who do you say I am?" from Matthew 16:15. In that passage, Peter is quick to answer, in verse 16, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Jesus calls him blessed, immediately saying ". . . .because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." Having known Peter as Jesus did, he con...

Proverbs 16:9 the mind of a man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Late last year I received news of a critically ill friend. Amazingly, my wife and I each, separately came to the same thought; I should go to visit and encourage him. This was a big deal thought because he was in Bellingham, Washington. The mind of this man planned the trip, the Lord directed, ...

Daniel 4 5 God loves me, and He reminds me that He is God and I'm not, therefore posting these Hearing God's Voice blogs is intimidating. Especially when getting a late start writing, how busy can a retired guy be? And staying at it too late. So diligence requires an earlier start. I'll go right to the core of this. In our pastor's message Sunday he used a quote from Kn...