The problem we have is that we admire the abdominal. We’re arrogant instead of aghast.
We’re backward in beliefs and borrow bitterness.
We create confusion because we’re confused about creation.
We deny deity and desire the deadly. Continue reading
Anointing
Here is the answer. Because every good leadership course you’ve ever taken has declared that you should never ask a question which you do not already have an answer for. Lawyers in courtrooms ask questions the way they do because they already know the answer they want to be given, or at least they think they do. The basic premise is that if you do not know the answer, how can you know the right question to ask. While answers sometimes surprise and turn us in new directions of thought, it is still driven by what we thought was the answer. God uses the same tactic when speaking with men. He always knows every correct answer and yet asks questions anyway. God’s reason for asking the question is so that we might know the correct answer and get our thinking on the same page as Him. Continue reading
Sparkling Stars
I see the sparkling stars in the crisp predawn sky. It is autumn; one of our first thirty something degree mornings. Bright, twinkling, familiar stars and planets cover the dark background. The more I stare, the more stars I see. Oh how I wish there were no manmade lights competing with their brilliance. Thank You Jesus. That is what I say every time their majestic illumination steals my breath away. It is a glorious sight. Put there to be a sign, a reminder of who has made all I can see and more than I can think or imagine. I am immediately overwhelmed by His indwelling presence. Every cell in my body tingles as it resonates His love for me. I want to melt where I am and stay in that moment. Continue reading
If You Are Becoming a Man
When a man begins to see himself as a man, He will begin to dress as a man, Expect to be addressed as a man, Treat the Women in His life as though he was the only proper example of manhood they will ever see.
He will seek the wisdom of aged men who have proven to be men. He will do what a man does to provide for those who will trust in his care. A man will understand the responsibilities the creator of the universe has given him by virtue of his manhood.
And finally he will thank God every day that he was not born a woman. Because when a man begins to be a man, he understands that he could never live up to the responsibilities of being a woman. He may have known a mother, a sister, a grandmother, an aunt, a niece, a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, or a gift from God to complete him as a man; but he will never have a greater responsibility to any of them than to be a man.