Joy YOU CAN TASTE
We speak with word pictures about virtues and values all the time. Here is one that comes straight from God’s Word. God gives us JOY that we can taste when […]
Encounters Wrapped in LOVE
When we wrestle through acts of service for other believers and for the lost, we find more and more joy in giving of ourselves. I just started reading in Acts […]
God’s Not Dead – Movie Review
My wife and I enjoyed watching the movie entitled God’s Not Dead last night. These explicitly Christ-oriented movies are strangly easy to critique, both for non-believers and believers. Why is […]
Being Noticed
California, probaly more than anywhere in the US, has a culture of deep desire for being noticed, for one reason or another. As I worked out at the gym today, […]
Undressing Shame
Shame… I wrote about it the other day and a friend sent me a link to the following public source – WIKI ON SHAME. Another older perspective on the meaning […]
HumblED
We all love someone who is truly humble, not falsely humble, but truly a humble and kind person. They have learned what contentment and patience and gentleness look like and […]
Wholly Following Jesus
This morning I read about Joshua and Caleb wholly following the LORD (Numbers 32). Imagine men in particular from 20 to 50 wholly following the LORD! It’s almost too good […]
Who Removes Shame
It’s all too common to see in our culture isn’t it? SHAME. We either pour it on or run from it or sulk in it’s shaddow. What about the Redeemer? […]
FOLLOW ME
Here is a powerful word for a believer in Jesus Christ to prayerfully take serious: FOLLOW. What does it look like for us to truly FOLLOW JESUS? “Whoever loves his […]
Friends Who Live in California
Building SAFE FAMILIES in Merced & Tuolumne Counties
Yesterday I had the honor of traveling up to Citrus […]
HATING LUST… JOY in the Battle
“God shall arise, His enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate Him shall flee before Him!… Oh God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through […]
Jim at the Nickel Arcade – Encountering Kids for Christ
As I went around town yesterday introducing myself as a […]
Neglect and Our Opportunity
My Bride, Carrie, told me of a place in Nepal called The House of the Dying. It is a place where predominately widows are abandoned by their families to die. […]
The Drop Box – Movie Review
Dear friends, Please consider going to watch The Drop Box – SEE LINK. If you miss watching it in theatres around the US this week, plan to watch it when […]
Friends Who Live in California
Encounters and Prayer
The word “encounter” has become a routine word for me of late as I’ve prayed over and thought through what God has called us to in His Word and in […]
Grounded Gospel 