If you want to watch one of Billy Graham’s early sermons, when he still had the thick Southern drawl of a North Carolina preacher boy, click on the link below. If you want to know what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit, you’ll have direct evidence of it within a half hour. […]
When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to […]
As we start a new year, we look to our past sins and say, “I will do everything well this next year, or at the very least I’ll do a few things better than I did last year.” Let’s look at what Dietrich Bonhoeffer had to say about that. “The evil fruit of my sin […]
I smiled. “Absolutely. And do you love God, Danny?” [Should be Jeremy] I inadvertently used the name of another inmate I’ve worked with along the same lines.
David Wilkerson, the author of The Switchblade and the Cross and the founder of Teen Challenge, was a modern-day prophet who died in a car accident on the plains of Texas nine years ago. I have a book of 365 selections from his writings, entitled GOD IS FAITHFUL that I use for one of my […]
Shawn murdered a young woman in cold blood and had been on death row for two years awaiting his execution. He was as guilty as guilty could be and had great remorse for what he had done. His appeals to escape the death penalty would run out sometime in the next year and then would […]
The following story is not meant to be a simile, metaphor, analogy, parable, or revelation from on high. It’s simply an observation I made yesterday morning at 7 a.m., sitting on a couch about a pillow’s throw from our lower-level gas fireplace. The pilot light is always on in the fireplace, a small blue flame […]
Underneath the dissonance of this world, the racket of all we have to do, and the clamor of the media and the people around us – comes the Melody of the Holy Spirit to all who have invited Jesus Christ into their hearts. It is the sound of God as we go about our day, […]
Yikes. Need to watch the headlines. Unter is actually the German word for under. Right message. Wrong language.
“So when we enter His presence, we start by talking. But many of us end up doing all the talking and no listening. It’s a one-sided fellowship…we never allow God to speak His mind into us. If we don’t give Him equal time, we’re trampling through His court like tourists. “God speaks only to those […]