Wordy Birds
The devil was interviewing candidates for the position: Chief Marketing Strategist. He was getting weary of hearing so much blah, blah, blah. At last a smart, neatly dressed young whip stepped up.
The devil asked, "So, what do you got, kid?"
The young whip simply spoke, “Make ‘em Wordy Birds.”
“Don’t get . . .
Determine, Embark
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of determination, the day of the Lord is near in the valley of determination. Decide and the floods appear. Faith is the victory - for faith is the substance and evidence. Smith Wigglesworth
Would you like to embark on the happiest, most rigorous, purposeful and awesome adventure . . .
Everybody Has A Story
Doesn't everybody have a reason for doubting God? Doesn't everybody have a story about a loved one who died, even after praying to God with all their heart.
I mean, these are good people who loved God, got sick and died. Or, they died young. These are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, friends. Senseless deaths, . . .
Above My Emotional Poverty Line
I don't want to be satisfied
with a salvation that keeps me
gasping for breath
just above my emotional poverty line.
I want to do synchronized swimming.
I want to frolic like a dolphin
in the ocean of Your delights.
To surf on the grand,
exhilarating waves of Your goodness.
I . . .
Look! A Fool on the Flying Trapeze!
Once one believes that the trapeze will hold them, they will leap from the platform and swing away. If they must prove, or know it is safe before leaping, they’ll stick to the platform forever.
Then the platform people will gather to extol themselves for the soundness of their wisdom.
They’ll mock and jeer at the . . .
Let's Fall in Love, Again
An Encouraging Word
I'm sometimes grieved, incensed and incredulous at how seeming reasonable people can observe the futility in themselves and throughout the world produced by ungratefulness, falsehood, cruelty, despair, pride and self-worship, and yet persist in their refusal to approach the God of Hope and Love.
The invitation of Jesus Christ is . . .
Faith is More Trickier Than You
To prove faith, you must surrender to its challenge.
You must grab hold of its promise (something you can’t physically see) on faith’s own terms. Otherwise, you cannot claim to have given faith and honest try.
By nature, faith only works by letting go of your doubts, and grabbing hold of something else.
Once you’ve . . .
