“Authority” The Word that Causes Riots

“Authority” The Word that Causes Riots

Who gave you the “authority?” We start asking it as toddlers of our parents, and it is what we’re asking of our leaders more often today. It was the question the Jewish religious leaders asked Jesus in Mark 11:28-30. Jesus responds not with an answer...
Desires, Fears and the Idols of Bondage. Will You Smash Them?

Desires, Fears and the Idols of Bondage. Will You Smash Them?

When do we start to be sneaky? Wanting something so badly that we lie, cheat and hide? When did our desires – the fear of not having enough, so take over control that we not only lie to others but to ourselves? Psychologists tell us that we can so convince ourselves...

FORGIVENESS: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Recently at a lunch event that I attended, a Hollywood writer shared the story of her father who had grown up in an abusive alcoholic family which left his mother single and abandoned. Through the restoration of Jesus, her father had not only survived his horrific...

Restoring An Eternal Connection Isn’t About Computers

  Our culture is propelled and energized by the obsession for more and the addictive drug of  “not enough.”  This addiction began at the beginning of man with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve bit into the apple of the knowledge of good and evil.  She gave...