Invested Stories

When someone goes with you, they will make sure you get to where you’re going. No missed turns, protection, and adaptation when a road is closed and you need to find another way.

The truth is, for most of us, we are not just having an affair. It goes much deeper than we realize. Think about it for a moment. With an affair, you know it is wrong; but you do it anyway, hoping to get away with it. But we are having more than an affair with convenience.

It is through this journey that we find holiness and union with God. It is there that I truly began to understand what it means to walk with God in the valley of the shadow of death without fear.

The only solution I have found that actually works is shifting my gaze …

The very first thing we receive from God, before anything else, is Love. Our conception, our birth, our first breath are all the love of God manifest in our physical reality.

If Jesus is moving in your church, there will be evidence. Lives changed, sickness healed, relationships renewed, shame and guilt destroyed … more than we can think or imagine.

What if there are two “Second Comings” of Jesus? Two second Advents? Now, before you tune me out, hear me out.

As we struggle to deal with this unleashing of the spirit of death and loss, we all as Christians seek to reconcile the words of Jesus with our personal experience of it.

One of the most precious gifts of God is consolation. Often, we experience it without naming it. It simply is. The provision of God when we are troubled.

Impact, influence, and value in the Kingdom of God is measure in love.

"Not by fine words." ... When was the last time you you encountered that in the church? Unfortunately I have to admit that I have not experienced a "demonstration of the Spirit's power" in the church the way Paul means in this passage.

Much like darkness being the absence of light, hate is the absence of love. And, as there is a progression from day to night, light to dark, there is also a progression from love to hate.

If you are to keep the squatters from returning and destroying the house of your tov heart, it must be occupied. Jesus must dwell there.

You are called to live open and free. Not protecting what you have but giving it all away, including yourself.

People are always on the lookout for the Shiny New Coin. The latest cool insight or revelation from some author or podcaster. The new thing they think will help them fix what is “broken” in their life.

For you to begin to become who God created you to be, you must be saturated with love, support, and encouragement.

There once was a man standing in a magnificent garden. A place full of life. A place where life flourished.

It is impossible to coast to Jesus. To “come to him,” you must act on purpose. You must consciously exercise your will.

The abundance of God is always on display. If we are willing to look down, it shows itself in every blade of grass, every flower, and animal

What if there are two Second Comings of Jesus? Two second Advents?