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I just had a pleasant experience and I sense I am supposed to share it. While some do, most of the people who minister like we minister do not do so for personal gain or recognition. We are simply content to serve the Lord in this way. So, we don’t spend our lives hungrily shaking the bushes hoping some compliments will fall out. We are content. Sometimes, though, someone will approach some of us and tell us nice things about the effect we may have had in our lives. This is m

There is nothing that touches me more than to witness what I call “spiritual courage.” My definition of “spiritual courage” is “to do what we know is right to do spiritually even when faced with dire consequences.” Jesus walked into Jerusalem knowing fully well that he would walk out beaten, tortured, tormented, abandoned and carrying his own instrument of death – the Cross. He listened to those singing praises to him, laying palm leaves and their cloaks on the ground for Him

In the past 2 years I have experienced the deaths of 7 significant people in my life: my pastor, some friends....(my pastor was also my friend), including people I watch over as THEIR pastor. A few days ago a man I pastored who lived in Carrolton, TX, Jim Lott, died after a courageous fight with cancer. A number of his friends and relatives are grappling with his death...which was not unexpected - we just all hoped he would somehow beat cancer. For a few years I worked as a h

“Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the Cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.” (John 19:31) Religion is an interestingly weird thing because religion is made by man. In contrast, Christianity is a lifestyle. Basically, religion is a set of man-made rules. Here we see that the Jews have arranged for the Savior to be murder