LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR A LIFETIME OF FUTURE LEARNING Over 30 years ago, I led a young lady to Christ. Several weeks later, she came back to me and said, “I need help. I don’t know anything about the Bible. I didn’t know there was an...
IF YOU LET IT, THE SMALL STUFF IN LIFE WILL BUILD UP TO BECOME BIG STUFF Some years ago, I flew to Chicago on Friday night to speak at an all-day seminar the next day. I felt like I was getting sick, so getting a good...
TRUTH IS WHAT GOD SAYS IT IS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE THINK, BELIEVE OR FEEL I one time filled a jigsaw puzzle box with Cheezits. Then, I held the puzzle box up, shook it, and asked a group of people what they thought was in the...
THE EVENTUAL GOAL IS TO BECOME A MILE WIDE AND A MILE DEEP For most of my Christian life, I have gotten Scripture memorization all wrong. I wonder if you have, too. As a good American, I assumed more was better, and subscribed to the “mile wide...
WE CATCH OUR VALUES THE SAME WAY WE CATCH THE MEASLES When I was in college, Francis Schaeffer, a noted American theologian and philosopher of the time, wrote that people get their values the same way they get the measles – by being around others who...
OF ALL THE THINGS A CHRISTIAN SHOULD DO, ONE THING STANDS OUT When I first became a Christian, the gentleman who led me to the Lord gave me one piece of advice that, in retrospect, was worth its weight in gold and changed my life. In the...
WE AUTOMATICALLY BECOME LIKE WHAT WE PUT INTO OUR BRAINS Have you ever struggled with why you don’t grow spiritually as fast as you would like to? Have you ever thought that you ought to be further along in your spiritual life than you are? I know...
HOW WE WORK REFLECTS OUR COMMITMENT TO GOD My father taught me to do my work well. He taught me to show up on time, work hard while I was there, and not quit until the job was done. I remember a time I learned firsthand the...
A BREAKTHROUGH SPIRITUAL GROWTH TOOL In the last few blogs, I have made several key points: The Shallow-ization of Christianity: Because of the power of the hostile culture in which we now live, it may be more difficult to live the Christian life than at any...
WE ARE TO LIVE FOR THE NEXT WORLD, NOT THIS ONE In his book, Brave New World, Aldus Huxley envisioned a very unpleasant future, not because things people wanted were being withheld from them (as was imagined in Orwell's book 1984), but rather, because everything was given to...