IS LAUREN DAIGLE’S SONG, “HOLD ON TO ME” A CHRISTIAN SONG? Lauren Daigle has become the most popular Christian artist in the world. She represents Jesus Christ and His church when it comes to her songs. She is a believer in Jesus Christ and has written many wonderful songs that reflect the glory of Jesus Christ and the power of a real relationship with Jesus Christ. Her words in her songs have given, literally, millions of people hope. Over the... Read more
LIVE YOUR COURAGEOUS CALLING FROM GOD We live in very challenging times right now and the last thing any of us want to do is add more challenge to our lives, but that is just what God asked Jeremiah to do. In challenging and uncertain times, it is easy to shrink back. It is easy to give up and give in and give out. It is easy to compromise who God has created you to be, but when the... Read more
WHY DID YOU PUBLISH THE 23 BOOK? The story that frames the background of the 23 book began officially in 2001. God awoke me and asked me to do something that if I would have known at the time what it was going to cost me, I may have joined Jonah in running the opposite direction. But like God does with all of us, He spoon fed me incrementally the calling that He placed in my life at 1:23am... Read more
The Mystery of 23: God Speaks FOREWORD for the book: The Mystery of 23: God Speaks by Jerry B. Jenkins This is the story of two Colorado Springs pastors from opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum. The author, Rev. Kelly Williams, may be viewed as your garden-variety Baptist-rooted, Dallas Theological Seminary-trained church planter. The tender shoot he and his wife and friends carefully planted and nurtured more than 20 years ago was seeker-oriented and drew a largely... Read more
FACING YOUR OWN SIN COURAGEOUSLY All of us have things that we wish were not true of us. Sometimes we call these, “regrets.” And they usually fall into one or two categories. Things we have done unintentionally and intentionally. We have all sinned intentionally and we have all sinned unintentionally. Some sins are omission. Meaning, things you didn’t do that you should have done. Some sins are commission. Meaning, things you did that you shouldn’t have done, but you... Read more
FACING THE UNREPENTANT All of us at some point in our lives will have a friend, a love one, or someone else in our life that refuses to repent. No matter what you say to them or how you try to frame it, they just won’t relent on their unrepentance. It could be a child, a parent, a friend, a co-worker, a spouse, a neighbor, or someone you don’t even know well that God has asked you to go... Read more
EXPERIENCING PEACE AMDIST OVERWHELMING ANXIETY Are you tired emotionally? Is your peace short lived due to the overwhelming nature of your life right now? What if I told you there is a cosmic spiritual war going on right now around you that is impacting you inwardly, would you believe me? We’re not the first to enter this cosmic battle! The Apostle Paul can relate. He lived part of his life in a prison cell. I can’t... Read more
THE MYSTERY OF 23: GOD SPEAKS, AGAIN! And so, It begins, AGAIN. Not in the dead of night this time, but in the middle of a warm summer day while taking a walk with my entire family near the base of Lake Erie on July 16, 2017. I was on sabbatical from pastoring Vanguard for the past 20 years. I was in Cleveland, Ohio at a Christian and Missionary Alliance Camp called Beulah Beach, where... Read more
THE MYSTERY OF 23: GOD SPEAKS It began at 1:23 a.m. Something or possibly someone awakened me out of a deep sleep. I sat straight up in the bed, sensing a presence in my room. My wife lay in the bed next to me asleep. Wide-awake and confused, I began to see in my mind’s eye what I would now call a “vision.” My room was dark with a bit of light from the street. The red numbers – 1:23... Read more
HEARING GOD’S VOICE AND OBEYING IN OUR SORROWS Someone once said, “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.” They must have been thinking about the story of Hannah and Samuel in 1 Samuel when they said that. Hannah was a barren woman who longed to have children. She cried to God in her sorrows. God wants to meet us in our sorrows. Maybe you feel “small” today in your life. Maybe the circumstances of your life are huge... Read more
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