Over the nearly 50 years I’ve been in the church, I have seen many and varied responses by Christians who witness spiritual decline around them. Whether it be spiritual decline in their family, their Christian community, their church, churches in their community or mega churches, or in their country overall. Many times their response is…
How we respond when we go through hard times is very important; this is why we need to have our weapons for spiritual warfare ready at our fingertips. We should remember that our attitude when we’re fighting a spiritual battle is as important as how we respond. Especially as the battle grows long. We can’t afford…
I remember back in the 1980’s when a lot of discussion was happening in the church about how to attract more young people into the church. Hymns wouldn’t do any longer, because young people considered them “old-people” music. There was no longer an expectation of dressing up for church, because culture overall didn’t demand suit…
I have a reoccurring dream that leaves me so stressed out in my sleep that I wake up exhausted, as if I hadn’t slept at all. In this dream, I get up to lead worship but I have no song list, we have had no rehearsal, no one knows what we’re doing, it is 2…
For the past several weeks we have been talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues. We’ve seen that this is what the world really needs from the church right now, and why failure to recognize our need of the gift of tongues renders the church powerless…
The other day my son wanted to play a video game that I had already told him he couldn’t play because of some bad language in it. He said something that I’ve heard before, many times from mature believers: “But it’s just a little bit of language, overall it’s a good game.” I took that…
