I met Jesus personally in 1948. He was my Savior first. I understood his dying on the cross for my sins (I didn’t have many serious ones at that time!) At five years of age, my pastor-Dad baptized me in water after holding me up so people actually believed there was someone in the […]
Archive | May, 2021
From Panic to Peace
So many stories in Scripture would wreck us as we read them… if we didn’t already know the victorious ending. In the story of Esther, (Book of Esther) at one point, a gallows has been built for her Godly uncle, the edict has been given and the date set for the elimination of the […]
Lengthen Your Vision
How good is your ‘Faith Vision?’ Can you see up close but not very well at a distance? We like the ‘close in’ type of faith… that which doesn’t stretch us or give us anxiety. We think we would prefer small requirements from our believing system. But we were made for much more exciting […]
Ordinary? Hardly!
There is a growing certainty in my spirit that God is about to reveal Himself to this world in a powerful and life-changing way in the immediate future. I can’t add specifics to that conviction, only that my heart tells me something wonderful is going to happen in the coming days. Call it a […]
The Lure of Presence
Over my years of ministry I have done a lot of traveling. My first ministry-related plane trip was in 1967 and in my more than 1 million miles of flying I have seen a lot from 30,000 feet. My eyes have gazed at sights that a camera couldn’t convey. But I speak for many […]