Turning the Hungry Away

Turning the Hungry Away

Why a ‘juice and cookie’ Jesus can never satisfy our souls. My two brothers and I sat in the back of our rusty, over-sized late 1960’s Buick, stuffing our faces with cream horn pastries-one of the few traditions we had as a homeless family living in an abandoned...
Becoming Resilient

Becoming Resilient

You’ve been through a tough season of pain. You’re finally beginning to heal and discover hope again. You feel like you’re beginning to understand the meaning of the word, Resilient. You are bouncing back from the unthinkable, but you still crave...
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

When the early Wesleyan bands of Christ-followers got together in small group meetings, their first question to each other was “How is it with your soul?” This is the best possible question for us as Christian leaders in light of Jesus’ warning and in light of what we...
Press On

Press On

“So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the down; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:3 NASB The passage encourages us to “press on to know the...
The Thinkers

The Thinkers

As a baby boomer, enough of the 1960s rubbed off on me to make me willing to question everything. I still believe there are absolutes, however, no matter how politically incorrect that may be, the cataclysm of the Sixties started long before. You could say it began...