Words of Life

Do you crave a dance? Do you desire an invitation from a Lover as music begins playing? I’ve seen dads dance with their daughters at weddings. I’ve also seen dads distance themselves from their daughters. David, a poetic author and my biblical hero who killed a giant and wrote songs…

Jesus captured succinctly the paradoxical nature of life in his one statement most repeated in the Gospels: "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Such a statement goes against the search for "self-fulfillment" in advanced psychology -- which turns…

If you don’t see God in all He has created, you are not likely to see Him in others or even in His own Son, Jesus. This breaks my heart because the God of all creation is the Master Designer whose majesty can be clearly seen in everything He created.…

Once I had a girl – a daughter of my own. We were connected and yet apart. Before setting eyes on her little baby being, I’d been cautioned that as much as I longed to give her all I’d never had, she would have already experienced the greatest wound of…

In the middle of a stiff winter wind she asks to go to the beach. That's where she says she wants to celebrate the turning of her calendar year, this year's birthday. To stand on the frozen snow and turn her face directly into whatever is coming this way. Nothing…

“This can’t be Christian music,” I thought when I first saw the long-haired singer’s image on the cover of the vinyl album. Even his name was written in a swashbuckling script that looked way too worldly to my strict Baptist mind. The music sounded like mainstream rock-n-roll and the vocals…

Sometimes we can just lose focus when it comes to our destiny, which is the "why" behind what we do. Paul's destiny included going to Rome. I am sure he kept that in mind as the waves were crashing against the ship. There will be waves crashing against your ship,…

It was during a Wednesday night student Bible study when God used the Second Corinthian account of Paul to convict my downhearted, yet sinful, spirit. As I read Paul's testimony, I couldn't help but think, Wow! Someone out there has it worse than me! Even though I was still dealing…

Whenever I talk to people about hearing God's "yes," they start to see the hope that lies in finally leaving behind their regrets and the pain caused by their mistakes, but... there is always a but. Linguists have noted that this conjunction possesses an interesting power. Whenever the word but…

Last week’s Awaken NOW Conference gloriously demonstrated supernatural unity in the body of Christ. In this spirit, the Holy Spirit touched hearts and lives. One powerful testimony we received came from Martin Shufflebotham, a former British soldier who now lives in Dallas. He gave me permission to share his email:…