I asked a church intern to go prayer knocking with me in a low-income area of Lincoln. At our third residence, my partner and I looked up and saw a guy smoking. Frank stared at us from the top floor of an apartment complex. We asked, “Would you like to he
Maintaining the status quo and not believing God to defeat “giants” in the land lead to dying in the wilderness without experiencing His mission in the world. God chooses a particular mission for every believer in the world. He desires every person walk in that mission. Fathers and leaders have responsibility to equip their physical and…
Jesus makes allowances for your weaknesses. He relates on your level. When Mary was weeping after not finding Jesus’ body, He asked why she was weeping and what she was seeking. Thomas needed to see physical evidence from Jesus’ body before he would believe. Jesus performed many signs so His disciples would believe. Some of…
Deciding whether to believe in Jesus is the most decision you can ever make. Divisions often arise in families around Jesus. Is He God or just a man? Society seeks to remove any mention of Jesus during Christmas. People instruct us to say, “Happy Holidays,” instead of “Merry Christmas.” City officials remove nativity scenes from…
Many face life dominating issues that immobilize them. It could be an addiction, disease, spiritual blindness, relational difficulty or emotional hurt. A desire to get well is the first step in emotional, physical and spiritual healing. Seeing God’s working, believing Christ and doing His will is sequence for spiritual health for those who are sick,…
Lee Strobel wrote that there are three great myths about religion:1. All religions are basically the same2. Christianity is simply one philosophy among many3. Christians are narrow-minded to think Jesus is the only way to heaven. Only Jesus provides hope in our sin-stained world. He is the only one who gives life. He is the…
George Bernard Shaw wrote, “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can’t find them, make them.” Jesus provides a model for overcoming circumstances…
God delights putting people into impossible situations. After starting full-time vocational ministry by faith, my wife said we would be out of money in three months since our income from supporters was 1/3 of what I made as an engineer. More than 24 years later, God has proven faithful in providing needed finances for our…