The Holy Spirit is not about creating cool environments for crafty religious experiences. The Holy Spirit creates corporate, collective, and even generational movement.

Though Jesus Christ first came to us prior to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, he shows us what it looks like when a human being lives in the fullness of the Spirit.

Whether it is our covenant-keeping with God, or our covenant-keeping in family relationships, the blessing of God rests upon those who fear him and walk in his ways.

Listen Now! August 10, 2018 John 17:20-26 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father,...

Listen Now! August 9, 2018 John 17:11-19 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of...

Listen Now! August 8, 2018 John 17:1-10 17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority...

Though you are tired, weak, and utterly incapable of facing the looming crosses ahead, you are a champion by the grace of God and the Cross of Jesus.

Listen Now! August 6, 2018 Mark 15:34 33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi,...

It is possible to build in vain even if we live in a grand house. When these things become the focus of our lives, there is a vanity, or emptiness, that seeps into our lives.

Listen Now! August 3, 2018 Luke 23:32-34 32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along...

As we approach, let us remember we want to learn these prayers not from the outside looking in, but from the inside looking out.

Our crosses come to us in those places where the ways of the Kingdom clash with the ways of the World and call on us to make difficult decisions.

In the largest way and with the fewest words, the cross is the weight of the glory of the love of God for the whole world, beginning with me.

The secret to life, according to Jesus, is to die before you die.

The psalmist looked up at the majestic mountains as a picture of God’s surrounding presence, and longed for that peace. In Christ, that eternal peace has broken in.

July 26, 2018 Hello Friends, The Daily Text will be on vacation today and tomorrow. I am away with my two sons for some rest and relaxation. I will be back in the saddle Monday. Thanks...

Listen Now! July 25, 2018 1 Corinthians 13:13 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. CONSIDER THIS We began the New Testament series on prayer with Jesus word to...

Through this kind of praying, the very Kingdom of God is sown like seeds in the fertile soil of our broken hearts and across the tortured landscape of our broken world.