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Living on Solid Ground

Living on Solid Ground

A couple of weeks ago I ran across a fb status update that concerned me. An old friend of mine from high school was having a tough time and he wrote something to the extent of . . . I thought God never puts more on you than you can bear? Why is everything falling...
Creating Creative Space

Creating Creative Space

I stood long at the second floor window watching cars cut a path through the snow as they passed by. My heart was throbbing with creative energy and my mind was racing to make use of it. Ideas were being born, and it was beautiful. I would have stood there all day, if...
Out of the Grey

Out of the Grey

The New Testament speaks of those who walk in the light and those who walk in darkness. But the NT knows nothing of the class of Christians that fill our churches today: those who walk in the grey. The grey is that opaque area between light and darkness, between...
Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit

Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit

What are your dreams? What are your goals? Have you written them down? Most people are not actually moving forward in life; most people are simple surviving. Surviving means simply trying to make it through another day, doing what is necessary to maintain your current...
Danger and the Dream

Danger and the Dream

The year was 1998, the month was July, and I was 21 years old. And I was in Africa, somewhere, standing on a platform before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people. I was preaching powerfully and the Spirit of God was moving over the crowd in powerful ways. At the...
If At First You Don’t Succeed . . .

If At First You Don’t Succeed . . .

If at first you don’t succeed, blame someone else. This version of the saying seems to be far more popular these days than the traditional try, try again. These times are marked by a pervasive lack of resilience, a dismally low tolerance-level for taking risks,...
Ruling Your Realm

Ruling Your Realm

When God created Adam and Eve, he gave them three commands: Be fruitful. Increase in number. Rule. Rule requires a realm. Without a realm of rulership, rule is irrelevant. Remember when that “rabbi” wrapped Eddie Long in a big ole Torah scroll and crowned...