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Tomorrow!

As of this coming Friday, August 17th, I will be running our first promotion through Amazon to release the new copy of “Daydreams, prevailing faith through the nightmares of life.”  Amazon is a new catalysts for authors and I am working closely with some experts who have seen incredible success through this new engine; with two [...]

Seriously?!

Excerpt from “In Your Element,” available here: Consider the absolute uncertainty of all worldly riches.  Trials and pain usually come in life.  If you are breathing, then you know this.  God sends heat in the form of trials in our lives; do we delight in earthly things at that point?  Can they satisfy us in [...]

What Faith Does Pt 1

What are we known for?  Think back on your life; what are some things that you yourself are known for?  What if I ask your spouse, your parents, your children, your best friends or your coworkers? What will they know you for?  Will they know you as a loving person?  As a follower of Christ? [...]

Explanations are a Substitute for Trust

I understand I am cheating, but I really wanted you all to read this from Pastor Tullian Tchividjian.  He wrote my heart right here, and I couldn’t say it any better so I thought you all might be blessed by it. Posted by Tullian Tchividjian on Aug 9, 2012  Have you ever felt like you couldn’t [...]

Beginning a Journey

Beginning a Journey. I just wanted to include everyone else on this blog to make sure they knew I was opening up “Nineteen Days” again to speak about Samuel’s journey.  The book is in process of completion right now as we are finalizing the initial editing stages.  I pray you are all blessed by it! [...]

Family: God’s Catalyst for His Glory

So I’ve had a revelation of sorts.  Some readers are far more advanced then I in their maturity development, in which case I am humbling presenting the reality of God’s grace finally hitting me between the eyes.  It has to do in regards to who I am right now.  I am a thirty three year [...]

A Princess Toilet Cleaner

Please consider this:  God has made man and woman for higher things than the things of this earth.  I call this the “Princess Driven Principle.”  Ask yourself this wonderful question; “For what purpose has God created you?  Why has He sent you into the world?”  Why has He blessed you with an expensive education or [...]

I am Oscar

It was a face I won’t forget soon.  Cute, tender, naïve, and full of need; my heart went out to this poor creature.  Hairy in some parts, eyes clear, speaking of wonder and a willingness to learn, he was the kind that needed his mommy desperately, yet she had died from a horrible turf war [...]

Burn that Photo Album!

I met with a brother today.  And by the grace of God, he still wants to meet with me.  I say that because there are times when I look at my life and say, “why?”  He is to me someone who represents what could be, what should be, what will be for the church.  Many [...]

Twitter for God’s Glory

There are many excuses that I’ve given to let go of twitter (@dparkins).  The one prevailing thought in my mind as well as the mind of many is that it is too narcissistic.  I like what Michael Hyatt says, “Twitter is one of those things that merely amplifies what you already are.”  Whatever sin has [...]