My wife April is a dreamer. She has experienced fresh and clear expressions from the Lord for her and our lives together through dreams. I’ve asked the Lord to speak to me, and I, on occasion, have dreams that speak to me. More often, the Lord has given me scripture passages to find and study….
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Flee & Pursue
In my personal devotions, Bible reading, theological study and just listening to other preachers over coffee or through podcasts across the Internet, I’ve noticed many references to the two epistles directed to Timothy from Paul. I noticed this as a pattern so I was beginning to trust that God was trying to direct me to…
Tuesday Night 01-31-12
We’re having what we’re calling Tuesday Night Prayer Meeting weekly in our sanctuary at Hewett. April and I felt the calling to have weekly prayer services in August. We did, and the response was good. Our mutual calling did not include continuing the services beyond August, so we stopped the services. Folks were disappointed we…
I’ve Believed Lies
For as much as I want to deny it, I can’t deny the fact that I believe lies about myself. I read a recent article my bishop wrote about faith and works. It was good, and I affirm what he wrote to be worthwhile. I go through periods in my life that whenever I hear…
With 2012 On the Verge
Recently, when I’ve spoken and written about fear, I’ve gotten the most responses. The topic of fear strikes a chord in many people. It certainly strikes me between the eyes. I’ve come to hate and not affirm it as an unavoidable necessity of life by which I justify fight or flight. With 2012 on the…
Content With Contentment?
godliness with contentment is great gain — 1 Timothy 6: 6 I sometimes feel that all I do is not enough. I’m well aware that this is a lousy mindset for anyone in ministry, but this discontentment is real. I recall my wife sharing with me at a very dark time the verse above. Her…
It Is Possible
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him…
A Return
Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!” “I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes,…
Please People or God?
Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the…
Depression, Springsteen & Bethel Live
I always appreciated a woman who was a member of a church my wife pastored. She would say when she had a bad day she would always come home and listen to some Bruce Springsteen songs. Once she heard how bad things were in those songs, her day didn’t seem as bad. While I was…
Psalm 102 in The Message 