We make a grave error, if we think that the new creation God has made possible will automatically become ours. We gain our inheritance only as we engage in a battle of putting to death whatever is keeping the new nature from being revealed in...
There are places in every one of our lives, where we struggle, feeling frustrated and powerless, sometimes angry, ashamed, defeated and depressed . . . and yet we are told that, “whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that...
Have you ever cupped the wrinkled face of an elderly woman in your hands . . . someone who has forgotten her children’s names and the man who once shared her life, to summon forth the one who still lives and remembers on the other...
You are being summoned to a journey that is unfolding in a divine dialogue, a dialogue that is meant to build your relationship with God, fulfilling the reason He brought you to life. Relationship with God is the most delicious, fundamental reality imaginable. It is also the difference between life...
God is summoning us to a journey we cannot fathom, because what we understand now is too small to encompass what we will know then. We have to grow into the ability to apprehend what He has for us in this life, here on this...
Walking in the natural is feet on the ground with solid earth bearing our weight. We determine the direction of our journey by processing information. Is it time to move? Is this the right house to buy? The information we take into consideration will include...
There is a change you ache for. What is it going to take for God to work that change? There is a wound you can’t get past. What has to happen for God to heal you? There is a word God gave you long ago, which discouragement...
Everything God does has the ultimate goal of bringing us into a love relationship with Himself -- which is the only place -- where we are kept by His power. Nothing is more precious to me, as I consider my children and loved ones, than their...
Everything God does in our life -- everything -- belongs to His concerted effort to draw us into collaboration with Himself, so that He can make Himself real in our life, as we recognize and respond to His initiatives toward us. Of all those whom The Word of God flowed...
The vastness of a black night sky studded with heavenly lights is one of the strongest images in the Christmas story . . . shepherds watching their flocks by night, the glory of angelic hosts momentarily lighting the canopy of darkness, magi coming from a...