When I graduated from high school an older pastor and his wife took me out to lunch. They bought me a cheeseburger and gave me a Bible. In the cover he wrote to me: “This book will keep you from sin, and sin will keep you from this book.”
We can only serve one god: Jesus [...]

You know when you hear someone say something really profound, and it’s like you always knew what they said but you never actually thought about it before? It’s not that you’ve suddenly learned something new, but that you suddenly heard something in a new way. Or maybe you heard it out-loud for the first time, [...]

Genesis Six has one of the biggest buts in the Bible.
God was sorry that He had made man. He was grieved in his heart. Think about that. God was sorry he had made man. ouch.
So the Lord decides to destroy man. He decides to wipe out everyone because they’re so wicked. And not just destroy [...]

The first time I chose to fast was almost 6 years ago. I was new at IHOP and decided I would fast every Sunday. I remember after that first day, I went to bed and I was starving. In fact I felt so hungry I wanted to cry. I felt like I was torturing my [...]

Last week in the comments on my post about virtue Adam asked for a proper definition of “Happy Holiness.” I gave a decent answer - in my opinion - but a few days ago at the Friday night service Dana Candler gave us all a much better answer as she approached it from a different [...]

I feel like my post from earlier today was left a little open. So I want to touch on the “how then shall we live” question. The key to aligning our life before God in the midst of promised revival and necessary purity is to walk steadily. This is why lifestyle practices (or spiritual disciplines) [...]

We are in a pillar moment of history. The church across the globe has been given an invitation to enter into an internal expression and external understanding of Christianity unlike any other. But at the moment abortion, pornography, bitterness are rampant in the church - especially in America. How can we step into our calling [...]

Every day I have three goals I want to meet

Breakthrough with God in prayer
Serve and love others
Faithfullness in my current position / calling from the Lord

At the end of my day I can look back and evaluate how I spent my time and how my heart responded to different situations. I look to see if [...]

This is a post about why you’re probably not living for another age and why you should be. It’s about meekness. It’s about trusting God, being silent in accusation, and loving other people. It’s about laying down your life and finding Christ and inheriting lots of real estate. It’s not a read-it-got-it-that-was-cool post. It is [...]