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"But why do I not get back quicker when I want to so bad?" Not because God does not want the work done. Always because we fail in some way; it may be we have never repented half the way back. It may be we have some mental reservation, or are holding to some secret desire that God cannot grant.…

One of my favorite Advent stories is about a missionary couple on the eastern coast of Africa. They were waiting to go back to the United States, their home country, after having served for over twenty years and impacting two generations of people in the village where they were assigned.  They…

[The Word] is the food for the soul. Ezekiel said he took the roll and ate it. Robert Ingersoll certainly voiced our sentiments when he said, though in derision, "Anybody that will believe the Bible ought to be fed on the same kind of diet that Ezekiel had." Lord, give us more of the heavenly roll…

[The Word] is the food for the soul. Ezekiel said he took the roll and ate it. Robert Ingersoll certainly voiced our sentiments when he said, though in derision, "Anybody that will believe the Bible ought to be fed on the same kind of diet that Ezekiel had." Lord, give us more of the heavenly roll…

Twentieth-century reformer and martyr Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that until we find something worth dying for, we will not have anything truly worth living for.  Like many, I often wonder how committed I really am to my “to die for” list.  In fact, part of my own discipleship journey,…

Recently I was walking in a shopping mall in Johannesburg, South Africa. Because we had several hours before going to the airport for our 16-hour flight home, the group I was with wanted to do some last-minute shopping before boarding. Wandering the halls and looking at the stores with their…

God has always appointed people to speak for Him.  We can see consistently in the Bible that God finds creative ways to speak, both directly and indirectly, and often appoints someone to speak for Him at a particular time or over a period of time.  The book of Joel reminds God’s people that this…

It happens every week in churches throughout the world.  Whether in gold colored plates, buckets, or boxes passed around or left at the back of the gathering place, an offering is received.  Though a standard practice, in our consumer-based, “get all you can” culture that rewards the accumulation…

One hundred fifty-five world areas and counting! It is hard to imagine the magnitude of the work of the Church of the Nazarene when describing our mission. It is not just that we are in so many countries of the world. But in every place where Nazarenes are found we have a definitive message: "God…

A common way that God approaches His people is to invite us to move away from fear. “Do not be afraid” is a greeting from God the Father and from Jesus that we hear again and again in the Bible.  What if we took this invitation seriously? I wonder how many times I have allowed fear to triumph…