My middle daughter sent me a text message this morning around 4:30 am letting me know I’d just added an 8lb 15oz, heavy-duty, arrow to my quiver: Don’t you see that children are God’s best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed [...]
I’ve been in hell a lot recently. Not the figurative one, the literal one. And to be technically correct, I haven’t been physically there; I’ve been immersed in the concept of it. I’ve been reading many authors, including those in the Bible, and am beginning to realize that I don’t know much about hell. I guess you [...]
I love it when somebody “gets it.” Misconceptions, illusions, outright lies and then, suddenly, the light comes on. The look on their face is priceless. The change that comes about in their life is nothing short of miraculous. Keeping it can be work. Oh, what complicated webs we can weave! Destroying the lie of who [...]
I have always thought small groups were important in the church. Ever since reading Roland Allen’s Spontaneous Growth of the Early Church and rediscovering (perhaps discovering for the first time) the growth of the church in Acts, I knew that most of the small groups I participated in came no where close to the cellular [...]
I ate at a place that I’d forgotten all about the other night while in Chattanooga. “TheYellow Deli” group fled the city back in 1979 amidst much controversy and charges of cult activity. Officially called the “Twelve Tribes” at this point, they made a forced evacuation from Chattanooga to Vermont and only recently returned and reopened [...]
I find it interesting how something that is so out of the normal in your average day to day affairs, that when it is introduced, even fleetingly, can carry such power to transform the way you see things. We did church normally yesterday, only it wasn’t normal at all. A sword used in a symbolic [...]
I’m excited! I’ve just spent an incredible two weeks doing the impossible in northeastern Brazil. The flame that has been lit is attempting to consume me. The possibilities that are bubbling up have me pacing the floor with anticipation. And, to add further fuel to this fire, Nathanael de Poix will be speaking at The [...]
On more than one occasion on this trip to Brazil I’ve stated that words were failing me in trying to describe what was occurring. In so many ways, this was but a way to escape having to grapple with a plethora of emotions that have assaulted me during these two weeks. In the heat of [...]
“Official” Freedom Tour Logo Our stay in Fortaleza on this trip will be life altering for those on the trip and those in the city. The trip to the interior is going to be mind-boggling. For seven years I’ve been going to the interior of the state of Ceará and the village of Ubaúna. Each [...]
“Official” Freedom Tour Logo I just received an email from my friend and compatriot, pastor Marclei in Fortaleza. He was giving me some of the details of the Fortaleza side of our Brazil trip and I’ll admit that it even caught me off guard just a bit. We will be at three different churches on [...]
