“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” –John 4:23, 24 Over the years, I’ve had many wonderful opportunities as a worship leader to experience really alive worship. I’ve been blessed to participate in worship where the Spirit of God moves so powerfully that you feel as if

To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven…A time to keep silence and a time to speak. –Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7b Sometimes having professional training in counseling makes me more aware of unhealthy or ineffective dynamics between people.  One thing that often stands out to me is when I see well-meaning people reaching out to someone with a problem.  The dynamics I often see involve this:  Person A—let’s call them “The Burdened”—has a pro

Remember the episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy finds out she’s pregnant (which you weren’t allowed to say on 1950’s TV, by the way; you had to say you were “having a baby”), and she keeps trying to tell Ricky but every time she tries, something goes wrong? Eventually she surprises him at his night club and he sings “We’re Having a Baby, My Baby and Me”, and Lucy cries the entire time. No matter how many times I see that episode, it still makes me cry. It’s a very touching epi

Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?  They don’t wash their hands before they eat!” Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?  For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  Ephesians 3:20-21 There are so many key phrases in these verses that jump out at me.  Who is able…He really IS able!  What is He able to do?  Not just some things, not just meet the standard, but immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.  The New