We seemed to have survived another Presidential election process. Now we wait to discover the impact. Already reaction is mounting up via social media. One thing is certain; the moral compass of our country continues to drift downward, and no political scheme is going to reverse the situation. The Lord brought to my mind a remarkably simple but profound strategy to counte...

One of the symptoms of Parkinson's for me is that I will occasionally waken in the middle of the night with my mind racing with ideas. It has become a routine way that the Lord speaks to me. (No, I don't hear a voice) They could also be just my vain imagination or bad pizza, I call them ponderings until I can validate them by the Word and Godly counsel. Please consider and...

I have been freshly convicted that I love my comfort more than I have realized. Our neighborhood is ripe with opportunity but as an introvert I struggle with getting out there and mixing it up. I've recently realized it's less about me being an introvert but rather that I idolize comfort. Since getting out there we've had the opportunity to point people to the only hope f...

I don't know about you, but I've never experienced a more tense, frustrating, confusing, and truly volatile political season before. At 60, I now have enough history to have seen a few ugly political seasons come and go. We've all previously watched some of the well-known and wealthy threaten to move to a different country if their candidate doesn't win...not new. We've he...

I was freshly reminded in my recent devotional time and in my preparation formy Home Church Group study on Experiencing God, of how Moses was quiteconvinced that he was unqualified for the assignment God was calling him to inExodus 3:11 4:17. God knew exactly what He was doing in His calling to Mosesto go to Pharaoh and tell him to let His people go. Moses however, did no...

"Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done harm to this people and you have not delivered at all." (Ex 5:23) This is a prayer of a man who is desperate to pray. As you know God sent Moses on a mission to free the Israelites from Pharaoh's grip. God told Moses "I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel out of Egyp...

Mark 11:17: And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." This passage really stood out to me this morning as we talk about His House being a House of Prayer. The reason it stood out to me was the part about "FOR ALL THE NATIONS". I missed this the ...

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Thoughts and insights recalled late at night or wee early in the morning. Please consider and prayerfully help me determine if the pondering is from God or bad pizza and please offer your insights. ...

In my devotional time this morning I was in 1 Kings 13 where we read the story of a prophet who was commanded by the word of the LORD to not eat or drink on his journey. An old prophet lies to him and tells him that the LORD Lord spoke to him also and it was okay for the younger prophet to come to his house and eat and drink. As they were sitting at the table eating and dr...