Patience can be defined as: the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. Patience can also be defined as: an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner. Patience [...]

Luke1:18-20 says, Zacharias said to the angel, “But this is impossible! I’m an old man now, and my wife is also well along in years.” Then the angel said, “I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. It was he who sent me to you with this good news! And now, because [...]

One of the biggest chores associated with being a leader is making hard decisions! Oftentimes there are two right answers, but each will make a different impact. so what do you do? Many times this leads me to, what my wife calls, “analysis paralysis.”. This is when you agonize and analyze for days, sometimes weeks, [...]

Hurricane Irene will inevitably draw out one of the key discoveries of Hurricane Katrina: There are many Americans who don’t have the resources available to weather a “rainy day.”  Too often we forget that there are millions of hard working, honest people in our country, many of whom are considered “middle class,” who live check [...]

People very close to me know this, but many don’t.  My wife and I lived together before we were married.  My reason for writing about this is to liberate and educate Christians who are seeking to please God, but struggle with the more difficult task of pleasing well-meaning Christians and religious people.  Let me be [...]

We hate to talk about it, yet so many of us have experienced it.  “Church Hurt!”  It happens when high expectations are met by ugly behavior, sometimes in ways we wouldn’t expect or tolerate in the streets. This Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Christians will not attend church services due to church hurt.  For some, [...]