I have a confession to make. I cried today. Unrequited love–life’s great theme seen in our literature, arts, and song. It gets you every time, this “loving someone and that love not returned in kind.”
I was listening to Jose Luis Perales and Alejandro Fernandez sing Perales’s “Por que’ esta soledad” (Why This Loneliness?). [...]
Without God’s Spirit dwelling within us, we are only a member of the walking dead who spend a few nightly whispers with loved ones and then bury our dead and wait to be buried in turn.
Without the Spirit of God that makes alive whatever it touches and lives in, we are just as good as dead. [...]
Belief is the distinguishing characteristic of the sons and daughters of God. They will just flat out believe God and His word. Period. They will rip off the shroud of doubt that lays like a suffocating blanket of death over their own hearts, and they will shout, “No! He’s alive! In me! He is risen in [...]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” So goes the wise proverb. But it is not just any vision for our lives that ultimately rescues us. It is the vision that our Creator has for us that will serve as the spiritual Rock and Foundation upon which to build our lives.
His vision [...]
A movie’s theme is the most important feature for me. Now if you go for good acting, this movie has it. Real life dialogue like you are there–it has it. Stark reality with the characters caught in the clutches of naturalistic mayhem–it’s got it. Cinematography depicting the barren, endless South Texas landscape and thus a symbol of the characters [...]
We who have been born from above have become the “children of God” or the sons and daughters of God. For we “have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). And we know that our Father is the “King of glory.” And we know that the sons and daughters [...]
“Love from above–down and through” has turned into my motto or credo. Some may wonder where I got it from.
Human beings have one major need: to be loved, especially someone who can give them sincere, pure “love from above.” The love I’m talking about is agape love, or God’s love. And so we humans [...]
Yes, we as God’s children, as His spiritual offspring, as His mortal heirs of all that He has, is, or ever shall be–yes, we are walking down a long road to get to his Celestial City.
And it is a tough, lonely road at times, fraught with danger and temptation. Our great poet/prophet/King David [...]
Yesterday family, friends, and I are sitting just inside the dry sand on the beach of Waimea Bay. Quicksilver camera crews are hooked up and ready to film. It’s 6:00 a.m., an hour before sunrise.
It’s the Eddie Big Wave Surfing Competition, and we feel the mist of the white froth kiss our cheeks, and as we talk, [...]
Upon coming to the stark realization that we have been duped and deceived–especially in the deeper matters of the heart–we tend to throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water. How could I have been such a fool? we ask ourselves, and then we turn our back on the offending entity.
Burned by [...]
