Have you ever been driving when someone cut you off and it ruined your day? Then they made an obscene hand gesture that made it worse? You don’t know them. You will probably never see them again, but now you want to return evil for evil. Maybe you frame your…
Have you ever laid in bed and worried all night about important things? It happens to me, and it can steal my peace. It’s funny how when the sun comes up those things don’t seem to be nearly as important. This is a tactic of the enemy (and our inner-me)…
Luppy is our dog. When she is in trouble, gets chastised, and finally obeys, she shakes herself from head to toe. It’s as if she is shaking it off and starting new. She puts it behind her. Why can’t we shake off the dumb things people say? Why don’t we…
I know a great pastor in Florida who was single and had a great church. He introduced me to his wife and shared their story. Apparently she is a widow because her husband died while flying a plane that wasn’t in good shape. Someone else is now living his dream…
There once was a donkey that fell into a well. The people couldn’t get him out, so they threw dirt on him. He shook the dirt off his back and stepped on it. As the well filled with dirt, the donkey began to rise in spite of his circumstances. When…
Walt Disney was a crazy guy with a dream based on a mouse. The same mouse that he talked to as a kid to get through hard times became his great provider. People made offers to buy his dream, but the dream was so real that he couldn’t sell the…
Joseph went through some hard times but ended up on the throne of power. Ten years later his family had provision because he had vision. We have to remember that other people’s dreams are tied to our dream. We can’t spend our life rehearsing what could have happened and what…
It’s not that we aren’t doing the right thing; we just aren’t doing it long enough. Stop looking back and saying if I coulda, shoulda, woulda. We can’t go back and alter that decision. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1) Your…
When Peter walked on the water, it was as if Peter was Gilligan and Jesus was the Professor. Gilligan’s Island always represented the Professor as confident and Gilligan as inept. When Peter walked he had to have a lump in his throat as he stepped out of the boat. Then…
This week I have talked about how a God-focused life has laser focus on the right thing. I’d like to off why we can trust that focus. We trust that our cars will not fall apart while driving down the highway. We trust that people will stay in their lane…
Early on when I was learning to fly, I was flying and went through a cloud bank. It freaked me out. I had no instrument training in order to be able to trust my instruments. I depended on my eyes. After I landed, about an hour later, the sun came…
FOCUS! As I develop sermon messages, I am may be interrupted by people but I may also interrupted by my thoughts. My inner me will bring up a situation that happened yesterday instead of allowing me to FOCUS. If we want success, if we want to move forward, we have…
