The Ascent

Celebrate: Nothing Else Matters

Celebrate: Nothing Else Matters

Do you ever have moments when you know that God’s plan unfolded just as it should have, it’s just not the plan you wanted? Has God’s plan ever been hard to accept?   A year ago this week I began a new adventure with God. This adventure grew out of a very...

The Great Hypocrisy of Love

The Great Hypocrisy of Love

“Love without truth is hypocrisy. Truth without love is brutality.” Warren Weirsbe   Love in and of itself does not stand alone. Love is the embodiment of truth. Love is the expression of integrity, honesty and sincerity.    Love cannot exist amid...

Truth Offends

Truth Offends

One of my daughters has claimed the family volleyball as her own. She believes that no one touches it, uses it or looks at it without her permission. She has argued this to the point of tears. She believes it to be true from the depth of her heart.    But just...

What’s Your Why?

What’s Your Why?

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to spend time with some students in the Adult and Teen Challenge of St. Louis program.    I asked two guys in the program I was working beside, “how did you get here?” and “What’s your story?”    As they began telling...

The Miracle of Surrendered Weakness

The Miracle of Surrendered Weakness

Has God ever called you to a situation where you were just totally out of your comfort zone? Has God ever asked you to  operate in your weak areas?    Uncomfortable would be an understatement when describing what Moses must have felt like as he led the Israelites...

Push Through Resistance

Push Through Resistance

Marshall and I spent all day Saturday putting a hedge in our backyard. He was scraping up the sod and I dug twenty holes for the clusia plants. 20 holes. Each hole had a fourteen inch diameter by 14” deep. And boy did my body feel it the next day!    The last...

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