As I watch television today, I am amazed at the major news networks near total neglect of The Person that Christmas is really all about. When did the FCC decide that the name of Jesus can’t be uttered over the airwaves? www.newsbusters.org recently ran a blog that reminded us that at least for NBC ABC and CBS there is still …
Are you scheduled to speak to a group of professional peers? Are you apprehensive about confronting someone in your family about a conflict? Have you been asked to give a presentation? Are you breathing and desire to communicate with confidence and power. If you answered yes to any of these questions, you can be confident in your ability to speak …
After a thousand miles of flying today, I am sitting at the gate where they just announced another delay in my flight and I think I may be in need of some serious prayer. In Galatians I read that patience is one of the fruits of the Spirit. There were other fruits like kindness, goodness, and faithfulness. I have no …
When my friend Randy Elrod, artist, musician, author, connoisseur and host of the annual Recreate Conference invited me to accompany him on a Caribbean cruise for creative Christians, (If God created YOU then you are creative) I answered YES before he could finish the sentence. When he invited me to be one of the speakers along with my friends Michael …
I am on a bus headed for a Compassion project in Fortaleza, Brazil. Marco, a handsome, tanned man with wispy white hair has just boarded the bus. Marco has labored on the behalf of poor children in Brazil for 27 years. He talks so fast the interpreter can barely keep up. In broken English and with a face creased with …