When overwhelmed, the one thing we need to do

I was feeling overwhelmed this week. I know that’s not unique to me and my schedule isn’t more busy or crazy or stressed than anyone else’s (to me it seems like it is, but I know that is self-delusion). Seriously, as I was thinking about that I remembered something I wrote a while back and […]

Discernment, one of our most useful tools for Spiritual Warfare

After getting to something about God, people often ask “What does God want me to do?” That’s a great question and in many ways is easier to find out answers that it first seems. Part of finding the answers has to do with the topic of what some church all “Spiritual Discernment.” Big term, but […]

Halloween video: link, copy, use for outreach

Following are two versions of a video I created to help people consider Jesus at Halloween. It is a natural time to do that because people are thinking about ghosts, death and all things supernatural. You can click the “share” command on the video to download the code to put on your website or to […]

Pearls before swine….what does that really mean if we are to evangelize our world?

When we started this series on discernment, we asked people in the class give us questions and here is one of them: Jesus said, “Don’t cast your pearls before swine.” On one level I understand this, but on another level, what are pearls? What are swine? How do we discern our “pearls”? How do we […]