10 Lies of the Devil (redux) plus podcast

(To listen to the podcast of this post, click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2 and click here for Part 3.) I have written on this topic before. (To read 10 Lies of the Devil, click here. To read 10 More Lies of the Devil, click here.) I feel strangely moved to […]

Men Jesus Called (video teaching series)

(For the entire Men Jesus Called teaching series by Richard @mcProdigal and Mike @aheartforgod, click here.)

The Story of How I Got My Gibson Explorer (guitar)

I had the following conversation on Twitter recently with Big Shane Slade (@shaneawesome). It’s just such a great story about how I got my Gibson Explorer (pictured). And yet it’s about so much more than that… The Story of How I Got My Gibson Explorer (guitar): (Each of these are the original tweets. I just […]

If My People (chorus)

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7 Reasons Why God Allows Wicked People to Rule

“Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him. It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel.” (1 Kings 16:30-31a) Why does God allow […]

The 11th Hour

“‘And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day long?”‘” (Matthew 20:6) You’ve heard the phrase “the eleventh hour” before? Sure you have. What you might not have known is its biblical roots. In His parable of […]

Get Back Up

“For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.” (Proverbs 24:16a) My son, Michael, was 4 years old when he received his first bike. (That was a long time ago.) He did very well riding it (surprisingly). The training wheels were a big, big help (of course). And there was something else Michael was […]

A Boy Feeling Sorry for Himself and a Great Lion

“‘I do think,’ said Shasta, ‘that I must be the most unfortunate boy that ever lived in the whole world. Everything goes right for everyone except me.’” In the Narnia series book, The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis, a boy named Shasta finds himself having a pity party. And why shouldn’t Shasta […]

How Majestic is Thy Name (chorus)

It’s amazing that somebody could be with you for so long and be pulling the wool over your eyes… (video)

(For the entire Men Jesus Called teaching series by Richard @mcProdigal and Mike @aheartforgod, click here.)