Looking back on my life, I realize now that I grew up in South Africa in the environment of an on-going revival. The revival had begun in my father's heart, and then in the church he was pastoring at the…
Ran into a verse in Acts this morning I don’t ever remember reading before. Paul is on his way to Jerusalem. In fact, Acts 20:22 tells us the he is “bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem.” But, in…
As long as I can remember, there has always been a lot of speculation about what Paul’s thorn was...the source of struggle for Paul, so severe, that it caused him to ask the Lord three times to please remove it…
I know it’s a simple thing but, growing up in South Africa, one of my chores when I got home from school each day was to prepare the vegetables my Mom was going to cook for dinner that night. If…
Think of a lover spurned. Or deep envy over someone else's position or possession. Not the kind of emotion you would normally ascribe to God. We think of jealousy mostly in a negative sense. It shows up in several of…
I was a young man back in the '60's. My father pastored a church in South Africa that, at the time, was associated with the holiness movement. The holiness movement began in the late 1800's, influenced by the renewal of…
2018 broke heavy on Rita and me. We were on a short break down in Arizona, between Christmas and New Year, to recoup from the craziness of the December schedule. I’m sure every pastor feels that way. Some time New…
It was not just for Jeremiah’s benefit that God said to him, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known” (Jeremiah 33:3). After all, Jeremiah was already…
The apostle Peter was on a preaching tour of new Christian churches, likely sent out by his peers at headquarters in Jerusalem. He had landed, for a period of time, in the church planted in the Gentile city of Antioch,…