May 4, 2017
Recently, I was in a group setting with some very focused believers who I was meeting for the first time. We were challenged to ask the man seated next to us a penetrating question of some sort, so I turned […]
April 27, 2017
I like to start each year grading myself on the “fruit of the Spirit”: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23). I put a letter-grade beside each one: A, B, C, D, or F. How […]
February 2, 2017
As the flogging continued the Spirit took me back to Jesus’ prayer in the garden that last night: “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” […]
January 19, 2017
Why couldn’t I lay down my life for Jesus back then? Because I couldn’t even lay down, my own agenda, my own personal plans for Peter. I couldn’t even begin to lay down … Self. Why couldn’t I follow Jesus […]