Sometimes, it is hard to clearly hear the voice of God in this life. Maybe you can relate to this situation… this distraction… this encumbrance to following God in pure child-like faith. Maybe you have never tried. I can honestly tell you that there are times that it seems as if God is very very…
That is the question, isn’t it? You wake up in the morning and begin the daily routine. Often, life is like a never-ending, bumpy airplane ride locked-in to autopilot. We (at times) seem like mindless robots wandering though this world… never thinking about the world to come. The devil has successfully placed spiritual blinders over…
I am sure that you have heard the old adage, “Be careful, it’s a jungle out there.” That is such a true statement… for many reasons. Life can sometimes seem like an old Tarzan movie. You are the strong man… whacking your way through the underbrush, watching out for the dangers that lurk around every…
How do you deal with life when it gets all bunched up, boiling with stress or uncertainty? As the photo above indicates, some people use mind-numbing substances to cope… beer or hard liquor or drugs. It is interesting to note that these beer cans were laying in front of our local missions building. I saw…
Think about the world we live in now. If you live only in the glow of modern media, it is easy to become discouraged. In the age of instant news and fast headlines, we see such things as: These are just five headlines this morning from Google News. The bad news typically overwhelms the good….
Today as Dawn and I were out shopping for a few things at our local Wal-Mart (Jackson, TN), we saw this box of Gloria Jean’s K-cup coffee. Man… in a flash, I thought back to 2009 when we first became acquainted with Gloria Jean’s Coffee there in Braila, Romania. Just outside the city limits of…
The image used for this article is a variation of the Mandelbrot Set. You may ask, “what in the world does the Mandelbrot Set have to do with anything?” Well, let me tell you a story… Yesterday, I was writing a college paper for a math class regarding Benoit Mandelbrot and his discovery called fractal…
Have you been there? I am sure you have. Walking through that dark place, that valley where everything seems gloomy and dim. The bright colors of joy seem to fade into many shades of despondent gray. Where is the clarity? Where is that bright future that you hear people talk about or preachers preach about?…
I have felt happy and I have felt sad. I have felt betrayal and I have befriended. I have felt victorious and I have felt defeated. Security, insecurity… melancholy, excited… passionate, unfeeling… powerful, weak… anxious, calm… and on and on it goes. In our humanity (the flesh), we are assaulted with a multitude of feelings….