Two years ago, I sat down and wrote a post that had been weighing on my heart for while. I was grieved. I was disturbed. And what I shared was from an authentic place of grief over the body of Christ being divided. I still feel that grief. The body of Christ in 2020 is…
What happens when we go day after day, month after month, year after year and literally feel no joy at all? What does the Bible say about joy and how it grows in the life of the believer? Christians are supposed to be the most joyful people on earth, right? But oftentimes they are not….
Joy is a battle. That is why God has given us so many Bible verses about joy, to help us build the fruit of joy in our lives. The enemy is daily strategizing ways to steal our joy. He doesn’t want us living in joy of the Lord, because a joyful Christian is a very…
“Adversity is normal in the life of a believer, defeat is abnormal.” – Pastor F. Dean Hackett This may not be a very encouraging statement, but the fact is that we see its truth in nearly every page of the Bible. From cover to cover, we see God promising someone something great, fantastic, miraculous, then…
I will readily admit that fear has always been a huge battle for me. It is an area that I’m finally starting to see some real breakthrough in, but I’ve been waging this war for many, many years. It is also an area that I come back to regularly, because it is an area where…
“I’m coming back to the heart of worship, and it’s all about you, Jesus”. I remember when this worship song took the world by storm in the late 1990’s. We all echoed it’s message: It’s not about the instruments, the cool riffs, or the band. It’s about Jesus. I was struck by that same message…
