What is your call to ministry?

What is your call to ministry?

What truly constitutes our call to ministry? Four elements come together to produce a valid and obedient call (that counsel of God mentioned in Psalm 32):A strong personal conviction or motivation felt by an individual to engage in something very specific that impacts...

Shrinking World, Expanding Life

Judy and I rolled out of bed about 5 am. Threw opened the drapes and gaped, one last time, at the beautiful sight of the Bay of Corinth. We could not escape visualizing all that had taken place there and in the vicinity. Paul’s experiences and his messages to the...

The Sea

Do you remember the first painting you ever saw of a big body of water? And do you remember your first glimpse of the sea? Each one of these memories shaped an impression of something bigger and more powerful than ourselves – the one who created the sea.For...

Choices and Decision Making

Strange how often we duck a decision.We wiggle and squirm hoping the issue, the event, or the person will go away. Kind of like Pavlov’s experiment, the issues evaporate often enough that we are willing to continue with this dysfunctional behavior. This escape occurs...

The Critical 50s

Whether you are seeing through the front windshield of your life, you are in the middle of it, or you are glancing through the rear view mirror to see where it went, your decade of being 50 Is critical.You are too old to be young, and you are too young to be old. You...