I absolutely adore Psalm 139. The words bring me to tears almost every time I read them.  I have quoted sections of this Psalm over and over again in my life as…

This is a short psalm, but in eight verses it describes the greatness of our God in a way that we can understand – in simplicity. Today in our post-modern world we are surrounded on every side by the “gods” of this world…

Last weekend I was exhausted. I collapsed. I just wanted to sleep FOREVER! I had worked all election cycle (two years) for a Member of Congress, running his campaign while simultaneously running…

We just went through the hardest year in most of our lives and now THIS - a Presidential election that seems as if it will never end.

We can be frustrated, depressed, or we can ask God what HE is up to…

In this post we will look at the second bullet point, wisdom. If we are going to stand on the Word of God, then we must seek the wisdom to understand and articulate Biblical truth and a Biblical worldview. This begins with humility…

There are many prayer guides and devotionals, but there are three specific things that each believer should include in his or her personal prayers before engaging the civil society…

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…” (Matthew 5:3).

The only way to survive in politics and still LOVE Jesus is to be desperate for God - daily, weekly, moment by moment…

Faith does not require Christians to constantly grin or walk through life as though trouble did not exist, but when we can see a glimpse of something positive coming along with the trial, life grows a little more hopeful. For myself, if I never again hear the word, “coronavirus,” it will be too soon…

One of the unique qualities of the Christian religion is our view of problems. We believe bad stuff is real, yet we also accept it as hopeful for we trust our God has the power to draw good from bad…

When I was a teenager, God spoke to me through Psalm 118. It jumped off the page into my heart and I have returned to it in many seasons of life since then. Throughout high school and my years in Bible college, I used to say this was my “life Psalm”…

On October 12, 539 BC, Babylonian king Belshazzar threw a wild drinking party for 1,000 nobles. To impress his guests, the king brought out the sacred gold and silver goblets that had been seized from the Jewish temple in…

There is a lot of red meat packed into the five verses of Psalm 100. Let’s read it together – this time in the King James Version (yes, the old version, it is so beautiful)…

Psalm 24 proclaims the majesty and grandeur of God, but at the same time describes Him and His attributes in specific ways that we can relate to. Let’s start with the first section of this beautiful Psalm and I will show you what I mean…

If you think the first half of 2020 was crazy, chaotic and confusing — Brace yourselves.

As someone who likes to see the cup half full rather than half empty I will tell you this…

As this latest racial crisis has hit our nation many are asking and some are demanding certain things from the church. Certainly it is nice to see that many still understand and recognize that the church has influence and is an agent of peace and hope in turmoil. But what they do not understand is…

I never thought much about enemies until I entered the political world fifteen years ago. I am sure I have always had them because of my boldness in speaking the truth about Jesus; but when I started standing up for what I believe in - in the midst of the political arena, enemies started arising.

One beautiful warm day in Guatemala City, I was sitting on the porch at base camp for Youth with a Mission. There was a perfect breeze. I had just eaten dinner, and a feeling of contentment came over me as I thought about the service project that my friend Nita and I had worked on earlier that day.

There is only one important difference between saints and sinners, and that is the blood of Jesus. There is nothing else that separates us. We are Godly for one reason only, because we have been born from above and have taken on the nature of Christ by believing in the death

There are people waiting for us on the other side of our fear.

As I was reading Mark 4 the other day - the story of Jesus calmly resting in the middle of the storm, I was reminded that sometimes we have to make a choice to go over to the other side…