When God Shouts
I recently was tweeting with a friend when, out of nowhere, it hit me that she had been a victim of sexual abuse. I’m aware such victims have lived with false shame under a cloak of privacy for many years in some cases and do not want their privacy violated, so I approached cautiously. I asked general questions about her past and slowly got more specific, then she knew that I knew. This is not a new experience for me and it’s no experience that I would seek, but it happens regularly anyway, about once per month, but this time was entirely different.

Interview with a Savante
Last night I interview my personal friend and longtime go-to prayer warrior Debbie @buffaloPine. I’ve known Debbie long enough to know that her difficult and brave journey to recovery from multiple personality disorder (MPD) while closely embracing her Lord, resulted in a very unique individual with very distinct characteristics, she is a prayer savante. I’ve long thought that those with

Eagles are Patient Hunters
This series on the Biblical metaphor of the eagle resulted from a scheduled tweet series that was my most retweeted ever. This is the second post inspired by the success of that series. In the first, we discussed how eagles must soar rather than flap their wings to fly. To do this, they wait upon thermal winds that lift them high above other birds and carry them along. This is the picture portrayed in Isaiah 40:31 where we are told to “wait upon the Lord” and we

Good Will Hunting
Social media produces traffic in a way that is unprecedented. It has surpassed both Google search and pornography as the most frequent activity online. Traffic is generated more often from solid followings in Twitter, Facebook, et al than by any other means. What does this mean for Christians online who earnestly seek God’s will for their time? It means volume and access. If you want to minister to athei

When You Love a Prodigal
There’s a long list of things that children do that break the hearts of their parents. The way to shred the heart of a Jesus-loving parent is not, as you might imagine, to reject Jesus, at least not that alone. I first accepted Jesus’ sacrif