Grounded Gospel

Our Spiritual Tipping Point and Christian Activism

After spending more time praying over Isaiah 58, I’m convinced […]

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 […]

Friends Who Live Near Us

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 […]

Friends from around the World

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 […]

Friends around the USA

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, […]

Friends around the USA

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 […]

Friends around the USA

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 […]

Gospel on the Ground

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 […]

Gospel on the Ground

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? […]

Gospel on the Ground

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 […]

Friends around the USA

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 […]

Friends Who Live Near Us

Jim at the Nickel Arcade – Encountering Kids for Christ

As I went around town yesterday introducing myself as a […]

Gospel on the Ground

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. […]

Gospel on the Ground

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 […]

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