How to Know if You’re Pleasing God Through Your Actions
While spending this month considering God’s favor and wisdom, I’ve been continually reminded of a question I ponder often: how do we know if we are pleasing God? Specifically, what is pleasing to God and how do we go about pleasing God? This is the subject of a post I...
Discernment – God’s Wisdom and Favor – 7 Posts
Let’s talk about discernment. It’s a pretty doggone big word… one of them “church words” that people use to sound smart. In a nutshell, it basically means having an ability to be of good judgement. It’s about a person’s...
Life Lessons and Fatherly Advice from My Dad
I am lucky to have gotten fatherly advice from my dad. That’s true whether he offered it intentionally or not. I like to think I’ve also given some fatherly advice to my own children during their lives. In the first chapter of Listen Up, Kids, I share one...
God’s Favor – The What, Why and How
God’s favor. I have often prayed for it and I bet many of you have heard it prayed for as well. If you’ve read even a little of the Bible, you have probably crossed a passage or two where it talked about someone having God’s favor or otherwise...
It’s My Wife’s Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary
It’s our wedding anniversary. Fifteen years ago today, I got into my Chevy Blazer and looked at the beautiful young lady that was seated in the passenger seat and said, “You’re my wife.” I think she responded with a simple, “Yep” but I really don’t remember. I...
What’s the Source of Wisdom and How is it Gained?
When I think about wisdom and how it is gained, I immediately go to personal experience and where I have failed to use wisdom or where I simply did not have wisdom. For instance, when a friend of mine and I were much younger, we thought we would have fun with some...
War Room Review: The Power of Prayer in Facing Life’s Battles
When we are disconnected from God, or choose to never really connect with God, we open ourselves to a lot of grief and turmoil. I was reminded of this when I got the chance to view War Room at the request of FishFlix.com, who provided me with a complimentary copy in...
Timeout! What The Heck Are You Doing?
It’s common to see players or teams call for timeout during the course of sporting events. In baseball, the catcher or manager may call timeout and go to the pitcher’s mound for a discussion on the best strategy for how to pitch to certain players. In football, we’ll...
Memorial Day Perspective About God and Patriotism, Plus Seven Related Posts
Patriotism and Christian worship is believed by some to have no right being mentioned in the same sentence; though others might consider them very much of the same. I’ve struggled with it for a long time, feeling that we sometimes allow a lines between them to...
The Blessing of Humility by Jerry Bridges – a Book Review
The late Jerry Bridges penned The Blessing of Humility before his death. In this wonderful little book, he details the beatitudes (Matt. 5:3–11) as a series of blessings that point us toward a pattern of humility in action. Tyndale House Publishers provided me with a...