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Sinner in the Hands of a Merciful God

It happened again. Someone told me I'm special. And I denied it. Then the person disagreed. I prepared for battle. It happens periodically. What? That someone looks at my life and the work that I do and thinks I'm special. And that I immediately disagree. I even go back and forth with people. "Yes you are," they say. "No, I'm not," I reply. Why? Because I'm not. And when someone tells me I'm special, I have the perfect opportunity to tell the person the truth.

"I give ALL glory to God," I tell...

DON'T BELIEVE YOUR PASTOR.......

Don't believe your pastor. Please don't worry, I'm not done. In fact, I'm just getting started. And if you think I'm about to put down your pastor, you're wrong. After all, I don't even know him. But I am about to give you a warning. Not just any warning, but a very serious one. And let me say this. This is not my warning. This is a warning from the Lord. And in case you don't believe me, I can promise you that you won't find just one warning in God's Word. You will find plenty. So don't beli...

The Most Important of All

What is the most important thing in your life? Good question? No, it's not. The most important question shouldn't be what is the most important thing in your life, but who is the most important person in your life. And if you cannot definitively, undoubtedly, by your mouth and in your heart and according to your thoughts and actions and lifestyle, say and demonstrate that the Lord God almighty is number one in your life, then you are missing the most important of all.

If you are familiar with...

My 18-Year-Old Cheerleader

Cheerleaders are often known for their beauty right? They are often renowned for being warm and bubbly, right? And full of encouragement to help the players on a team work hard to achieve victory, right? They often have broad, shining smiles, and they usually work hard to stay in excellent shape, right? Well, little did I know when I stood side by side recently with an 18-year-old girl I met on the beach as we posed for a photograph alongside paralyzed dogs Miss Mercy and Mr. Simeon in their...

The Ultimate Strip Tease

The year I met two professional strippers while on a family vacation and proceeded to spend the night in their rental rather than my family's had nothing to do with the ultimate strip tease, but then nor did the Halloweens I dressed up as prostitute, the countless times I went off to the bars dressed like a whore and acted like I didn't even know what the word moral meant, or the numerous times I became involved with men I never should have been involved with. None of this, now a piece of my...

PRAYER REQUEST from LARA

Hello Everyone, 

I would be exceedingly grateful if you are led if you would please PRAY for provision as I move ahead in fulfilling Walk by Faith Ministry's mission to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ while ministering the Lord's love to a world in need. 

With no staff or volunteers, and operating on a bare-bones personal budget and a bare-bones ministry budget, I do a combination of preaching/teaching the Gospel & God's Word, writing & publishing, streets and beach ministry,...

The Privilege to Serve

I spent much of my life being served and expecting to be served. I figured I would reap as much as I could from this world. I had a heart full of compassion, but compassion doesn't go very far with the self-centered lifestyle I led. I had a heart full of a bunch of human love, but human love doesn't last very long nor get very far either in the face of life's trials not to mention my sins running rampant. I did my best to do what the world taught me. Me, me, me. Isn't that what the world teac...

Is Loneliness Eating Your Lunch?

I could be lonely. I should be lonely. I would be lonely. But I couldn't be lonely even if I tried. Yet I have every reason in the world to be lonely. I am a total people person, and yet I have no family, husband, fiance, boyfriend, co-workers, regular social activities, or what could even be remotely considered a social life. I have a background of abuse, abandonment, rejection, unwanted divorce, and a zillion other reasons to be depressed - and lonely. Lonely, lonely, lonely. Lonely? I can'...

Are You Holy?

If you think it is irreverent of me to ask you if you are holy, you might think differently after I explain. Perhaps you wonder how I can possibly ask if you are holy considering the Lord is the only perfectly holy, perfectly righteous, perfectly just one in the universe. Doesn't it seem irreverent to even conceive of the notion that you and I could be holy? Let me explain.

God calls us to be holy as He is holy. This means we are to aspire to holiness. We are to aim in the direction of holines...

Looking Down on the Homeless. . .

The next time you think about looking down on the homeless, try this. Look up to the Lord. And when you look up to the Lord, you will undoubtedly see the homeless in a different light. His light. Why? Because when you look up to the Lord, you will see yourself in the right perspective. When you look up to the Lord who is everything, you will realize that you are nothing without Him. So who are you to raise your nose at the homeless or at anyone else for that matter? Instead of raising your no...