"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)I was a Sophomore in High School and I dreamed of being a football star. During...
"Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." (Jeremiah 33:3 ESV)"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." (John10:27 ESV)Mark Lowery sings, "I Know When I'm Hearing from Home." It's a...
It was with great pride that I watched my bride-to-be march down the isle of her parent's church in the Los Angeles area of California. The day went by in a dream, as did our brief honeymoon, and then, as she busied herself in settling into our first home together, I...
It was in the midst of the most glorious days of Bible club at my public elementary school that God began to give me that "heavenly nudge". Something was about to change, and I shouldn't fight it.It all began one day in the car. After leaving my class in the hands of...
"Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7 ESV) On Monday, I told the story of how God began a healing ministry at my school by healing the daughter of one of my co-teachers. My job was simply to be open to His voice, do what He called...
"This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything" (George MacDonald 1824–1905) In these difficult...
Revelation 3:7-8 - And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, "These things says He who is holy, He who is true, 'He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens': I know your works. See, I have set before you an open...
