I had a rough week last week. It wasn’t particularly terrible… it was more the type of week where for some reason beyond anything you can pinpoint, even the normal is somehow harder to deal with. Do you know the feeling? By the time Sunday came, I was hungry for the comfort of God’s presence…not …
Happy New Year world! I’ve spent the last four hours sitting on my sofa, reading through last year’s journal entries and writing my end-of-2011 and beginning-of-2012 thoughts. God did so much in me last year. The year had its struggles, and some of them were new ones that knocked me down to my knees. But …
It’s late at night, and I’ve been sitting here in the dark for over two hours, fighting a sinus infection and worshiping in various ways. You see…last Sunday once again fanned the flames of the hunger for worship in my heart. I was only a teenager when I first experienced God’s presence in worship…and it …
I’ve wanted to share some things for a few weeks now about a certain question that many of us have asked. We see people get sick and die, and we ask it. We see people going bankrupt, and we wonder. Many things cause us to want to know… Where’s the power? You know what I’m …
I only posted once last month. I think that’s a first in the five years I’ve been blogging here. The reason…well, I’m actually not too sure. In some ways, I “feel like” I’ve taken a bunch of major steps backwards in my walk with God. I’ve definitely gotten lost a number of times. And yet, …
I feel like I’ve wandered away from God. I feel like I’ve fallen asleep…or gotten stuck in the clay. I feel like…oh all sorts of things. So what will I believe? Will I live as though I have wandered away from God? Or will I praise Him because His word says, “Where can I go …
Some of you probably already saw this on my facebook page…but I still have to share this here, so my blog is joining in the thousands who are dancing this morning. This is last year’s celebration in Budapest, Hungary, with 1,300 people participating. And this morning, a new song is being sung and a new …
The Bible is full of scriptures that hint about how powerful praise and thanks are…that “attitude of gratitude” that we’ve all heard about. There are verses that say that the lack of thanks leads to unrighteousness. God ordained sacrifices of thanksgiving, which, interestingly enough, were tied into peace offerings. There’s a connection, for Paul said …
Yesterday, I had one of “those days.” You know they’re like. Nothing seems to go right, and somehow all the little things that didn’t go right affect you more than the things that did go right. And even though you’re sure that more went right than wrong, it’s all you can do to think of …
How is it that a song you’ve heard dozens of times…a verse you’ve read before…a story you know by heart…can suddenly touch something in your spirit? Suddenly, without anything done on your part, you’re drawn into His throne room, seeing things you’ve only ever dreamed of before, knowing that your heart and your life is …