Sever months ago, I was invited to go on a trail run with a friend.  He rans with several runners.  I am not much of a runner, so when they took off I gave everything I had to keep up.  It was a dry day, and their trail shoes threw tons of dust.  There were 4 of them...

A lot has changed in ministry since the days of Jesus, Peter, and Paul (like the fact I can write in Nicaragua, hit "Publish," and instantly share it with the world). Here's one extremely unfortunate constant: the body of Christ continues to fight against itself. The...

Matthew 5:14 New International Version (NIV) 14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. This actually could be Part 2 from my last Monday's devotional. Jesus is telling the crowd and his disciples to be both salt and light. If you, up...

1 Timothy 6:1,2 (ESV) 1 Let all who are under a yoke as bond servants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are...

I seem to be running out of fuel lately, both in the literal and figurative sense.  This past week, I was gifted a tiller that ‘doesn’t work’ and the issue seems to be no fuel getting from the tank to the carburetor, as with a little gas, it fires up just fine.  I had...

Have you ever had someone go out of their way to make your life miserable?  Like they have an agenda to embarrass and shame you infront of people. Then we play out what we wish we could do to them or we have these fake conversations in out head with them.  We tear...

As Christians we often see service in terms of what programs and ministries we are involved in. We serve when we volunteer in Sunday School, help on a work project, go on a mission trip, etc. Having served on church staffs for over a decade I am guilty of sometimes...