Until this lesson, I did not realize how potent a rhema is -- a spoken word, coming like a slice of light from the mind of God -- to instantaneously make us alive to Him. AND in thirty-two years of teaching, I have rarely sensed...
From ancient time, man has pondered the inexplicable organizing influence at work in the cosmos. Greek philosophers gave it a name; they called it the logos. Originally logos meant “word”, “speech,” “reason;” but it was gradually extended to refer to the underlying “order” or “reason”...
Last week I described my friend's amazement to find God speaking to her through journal entries written in her own hand. Far from being silent, Jesus was speaking; she just hadn't had the ear to hear. This week Julie describes that continuing transformation in her...
Even when I was at enmity with Christianity, contemptuous of all that Jesus is to me now, I knew His voice. I didn’t know it was my Redeemer speaking in me, but His voice filtered through my soul. “Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that...
Slipping away from the tumult of her visiting grandchildren, she walked down the darkened hallway to her silent studio—catching her breath, startled to find someone waiting there. In a chair too big, in the middle of the room, her barely seven-year-old granddaughter sat waiting. “Darling, what...
What is it that allows some people to experience an amazing flow of fortuitous events demonstrating their connection to God? Are they “special”? Is it “luck”? Do they have a “gift” we do not? The answer is—none of the above. What they have is a right...
My friend and collaborator, David Cato, died early Friday morning, January 20th, 2012, at 2:00 AM of kidney failure. As an artist his work shines throughout this website; as a man the lingering beauty of who he was shines on in my heart. Humble, professional, sweet,...
No provision is more essential to experiencing God than faith. When faith is perfected in us, it coalesces into something extraordinary—the supernatural capacity to receive God’s supernatural power into our circumstances. The power to hear God, to see Him, to understand what He is saying does...
No matter how we experience the divine dialogue, we are experiencing The Holy Spirit. The two experiences are indivisibly the same. When the Spirit of God moves on you, in you or around you, to whatever end or by whatever means, you are being informed...
As many of you know, my friend and collaborator, David Cato, was rushed to the hospital and given slim chance of survival the week before Christmas. Unconscious and non-responsive, already compromised by a tough recent bout with his autoimmune disease, this man with a huge...