Tweet Exodus 16 brings us a story that has taken on new meaning to me as of late. As I have been studying and reading, I have come to see more of God’s heart and more of my own lack of trust in it. Exodus 16 is all about food. I have to admit, I love food. But in Exodus 16 we find our newly freed Israelites complaining over a lack of food. They even go so far as to remark they would rather be back in Egypt! Apparently, lack of food can cloud your senses and cause you to wish for slavery once again. (So many other metaphors in…

Tweet Or perhaps better known as Valentine’s Day. It’s a holiday people tend to love or loathe depending on which side of the relationship spectrum they may be on.  And I am usually on the loathe side. Normally because I just think its silly we spend all this money on overpriced goods to do something we should do every single day of the year-spread love. This year I have been thinking a lot this holiday. Thankfully being so far away, I can avoid most of the hoopla of the holiday, but I have been thinking about how much good the holiday could do. See, its a holiday focused around love.…

Tweet “And I look at the whole religious scene today and all I see are the inventions and ministries of man and flesh.  It’s mostly powerless.  It has no impact on the world.  And I see more of the world coming into the church and impacting the church, rather than the church impacting the world.  I see the music taking over the house of God.  I see entertainment taking over the house of God.  An obsession with entertainment in God’s house.  A hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof.  Nobody wants to hear it any more.  Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God?” This is the beginning…