As I drove six hours home from a speaking engagement in west Texas, I heard a voice in my heart: “Draw near to me, and I will draw near to you.” It is from James 4:8, a verse I had read many times. In that moment, the written Word of God became the whispered Word of God. I knew He was calling me ...
[Archive] 10: His Voice!, Part II
“Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving. For this will please the Lord more than the sacrifice of an ox or presenting a bull with its horns and hooves” (Psalm 69:30-31). God invites to enter every experience at one level of relationship with Him and ...
How to Become a Hope Hunter #1: Believe There Will Be Spring
The thing that shocked me in my “hopeless situation” was finding out that I had hope I couldn’t see. “For in this hope we were saved,” I read in Romans 8:24, “But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?” That’s what it says in the NIV. In the New Living ...
[Archive] 9: His Voice!, Part I
"Don't kill them, for my people soon forget such lessons; stagger them with Your power, and bring them to their knees" (Psalm 59:11). We are quick to forget the voice of God when something we hoped for doesn't happen right away, or when something we depended on disappears. ...
The Joy of Chapter Two
“I never wanted to become a teacher,” I said, smiling. That is not the most romantic thing someone could say to the state teacher of the year judging panel. Most of the candidates for the Texas Teacher of the Year award say that teaching has always been in the their blood. They say their mother ...
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