The Gift Your Parents Really Want This Christmas: Spiritual Blessing
This is the acknowledgement to my mother in my first, soon to be released book, More Than Gold (March 2023): “To my mom, Thank you for being unwavering in your faith, standing strong year after year in the midst of great trauma and personal loss. I will always be grateful for your strength, love, bravery, […]
Entering His Presence with Thanks
“Lift up a great shout of joy to Yahweh! Go ahead and do it—everyone, everywhere! Worship Yahweh with gladness. Sing your way into his presence with joy! And realize what this really means—we have the privilege of worshiping Yahweh our God. For he is our Creator and we belong to him. We are the people […]
The Father’s Prayer
Pray Like This Jesus taught us how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 in a prayer we call “The Lord’s Prayer.” The Lord’s prayer is the perfect prayer. (Unsurprisingly, the prayer contains seven petitions with seven being the number of covenant and the number of perfection and completion.) That said, for much of my life, I […]
The Identity Project
A good friend of mine, George La Du, founded the Identity Project and has been preaching on the Father’s love for 40+ years. George’s ministry deeply instills the truth that you are who the Father says you are (His masterpiece!). Knowing who you are and who you belong to opens your heart to the Father’s […]
The Divine Dance
Some have described the mystery of the Trinity as “the Divine Dance.” This term comes from the Greek word perichoresis, which means “to dance around” and the Latin word circulatio, which describes a circular dance between three persons, “such that each person is in the other two, while the others are in each one. At […]
Experiencing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Part 2
To read Experiencing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Part 1, click here. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. In other words, He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and present everywhere, all the time. This means we can encounter God anywhere, anytime. God created us to experience Him throughout each day. How? By increasing our awareness […]
Experiencing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Part 1
“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” – 2 Corinthians 13:14 Scripture reveals to us over and over, through both testaments, the nature of God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are dozens […]
A Father’s Love Letter
For many years, I had no idea of how God really felt about me and didn’t know that a relationship with Jesus was even possible. Unhealed wounds in my heart made it difficult for me to receive the glorious truth of what it means to be a child of God. This massively affected my ability […]
A Father’s Blessing – Part 2
If you look at the families and parents and children who make up today’s culture, it’s not hard to see how the enemy has attempted to destroy what God intended for good. Single parents, estranged children, rampant divorce, abandonment, and dysfunctional people filled with bitterness and resentment only begin to describe the effects of fatherlessness […]
A Father’s Blessing – Part 1
The Bible is a testament to the goodness of God and declares over and over how vast His love is for His children. Jesus won the victory over sin and death, and He reigns supreme. As sons and daughters, we get to appropriate His victory into every area of our lives and follow the ancient […]