(7 minute read) “…just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts (1 Thessalonians 2:4, ESV).” My favorite memory of my father happened through Dixie Youth Baseball. Dad was my...
(7 minute read) “Revive us so we can call on your name once more (Psalm 80:18b, NLT).” Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a revival? It happened once for me. A group of men and women from a local recovery center started to attend our church in Dallas. Through the detox...
When Ryan and Tricia McCammack and their eight children moved to DeKalb County, Georgia to plant Gospel Hope Church, they wanted their congregation to reflect the multicultural community around it. To do that, they partnered with several churches, organizations, and Rod Dewberry, a black pastor...
(7 minute read) “I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you. I prayed to the Lord and said, “'Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out...
(6 minute read) “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth (Psalm 46:10, NIV).” In 2010, I traveled with a group of pastors to South Korea to learn from other pastors. South Korea is home to some of the largest...
(7 minute read) “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you (James 1:5, NIV).” Newcastle, Australia is an industrial port city about seventy-five miles north of Sydney. On the morning of June...
Day 28 Devotion: Confident Prayer (7 minute read) “Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need (Hebrews 4:16, NIV).” During the Civil War, there was a soldier who wanted to speak to...
(8 minute read) “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well (Matthew 6:33, NIV).” When my daughter was two years old, I buckled her in the car for what I thought would be a fun adventure. Emily had never been through a car...
(7 minute read) “Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up (Luke 18:1, NIV).” Some years ago, Jen and I experienced a change in the way we saw ourselves. Since we had been married, we knew we wanted God to use our home for whatever...
(7 minute read) “…Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God (Luke 6:12, NIV).” George Mallory was the famed mountain climber who may have been the first person ever to reach the top of Mount Everest. In the early 1920s, he led a number of...