Grocery shopping is not my favorite activity in the world. And yet, I seem to end up at Wal-Mart every day. Its not that I don’t have a great system for keeping a shopping list (I’m actually a really detailed list maker), but the craziness of life just keeps throwing more and more of those …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
I Don’t Vacation Well
Recently, I spent some time on vacation. I had been planning and looking forward to the getaway for months. Finally, I arrived. I checked into my hotel, grabbed my backpack full of books and headed to the pool. This is what I had been waiting for. Only, it wasn’t the way I had envisioned it. …
Fan the Flame With Power
For most pastors, the greatest influence in their ministry (other than the divine work of the Spirit through the Word of God) is not Bible College or Seminary –it’s the people whom God has used to invest in them. For me, the list gets lengthy. It includes my parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, Sunday …
Gotta Serve Somebody
You are a slave to anything you can’t (or won’t) stop thinking about. By definition, the person to whom you are enslaved has power over you. Spiritually speaking, we all enter this world as slaves to sin (Romans 3:23), “following the prince of the power of the air,” Satan (Eph. 2:1). Slave masters are very …