Category: Personal/Spiritual Growth

  • Breaking Up Fallow Ground

    Breaking Up Fallow Ground

    Months ago, our church staff was in a time of prayer. I was on staff at the time (I have since retired), and the Lord spoke this scripture to my heart. “Break up your fallow ground”. I had heard the passage quoted many times, and I turned in my Bible to find it. “Sow for yourselves…

  • Where the Real Jesus is Found

    Where the Real Jesus is Found

    The real Jesus may seem elusive, hidden, and unavailable. I believe He is to some people. For years of my life, He was to me. All I had known was religion. You know that thing that tells you what YOU have to do to be good enough for God then He’ll love you and find…

  • Understanding Our Value & Worth (The Foundation for Building Healthy Relationships)

    Understanding Our Value & Worth (The Foundation for Building Healthy Relationships)

    In this two-part podcast, I talk about why so many of our relationships are filled with turmoil and we keep making the same mistakes over and over. Why so many of us feel like victims instead of victors….a wound that I believe exists in the understanding our worth as human beings that many of us…

  • One of the Biggest Battles I Fight! (A Personal Disclosure)

    One of the Biggest Battles I Fight! (A Personal Disclosure)

    One of the greatest battles I fight is getting my mind off myself and onto others. How about you? My days are consumed with my job, my bills, my family, my significance, my health, am I doing all I can do….and the list goes on and on. There is only one common denominator in all…

  • Ten Things Worship Leaders Should Exhibit If They’re Going To Lead Well…That Have Nothing To Do With Music.

    This week while studying God’s Word, the Lord brought me to 1 Thessalonians chapter two to an amazing portion of scripture where Paul was talking about his conduct among the believers and those he led and did life with. He was entrusted with the Gospel to bring it to them and he began to talk…

  • Love’s Key That Can Open the Door of Your Heart

    Father. Son. Holy Spirit. Three in One. God is One. Father and Son. Not employer and employee. Not teacher and student. Not president, or prime minister, or dictator. But Father and Son! So profound that the Godhead is identified as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. A truth we rarely even notice. Holy Spirit is Comforter, Counselor,…

  • Fighting the Battle of Self-Rejection

    Fighting the Battle of Self-Rejection

    Self-rejection is a taboo subject because it contains so many implications. Yet, millions of us, the majority, women, engage in this practice daily. Some to very severe degrees to the point of eating disorders, domestic violence, drug additions, self-mutilation and self-abasement of the worst kinds. In this week’s podcast, we’ll discuss some of the origins…

  • Desolate Places (When God Leads You Into the Wilderness)

    des·o·late adjective adjective: desolate 1. (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness. It seems that God might be partial to the desolate places. After all, great men of God were led there; Moses. Joseph. John the Baptist. And even Jesus. They were all led into the wilderness for…

  • PODCAST: Walk As Jesus Walked….What Does That Look Like!
  • The Power to Heal the World….. in this one Virtue!

    The Power to Heal the World….. in this one Virtue!

    All my empty nesting life, which has been about 10 or so years, I have suffered with a deep longing.

  • PODCAST: Whose Life Are You Living? Yours or Someone Else’s?

    PODCAST: Whose Life Are You Living? Yours or Someone Else’s?

    Many times in life we can find ourselves living in someone else’s expectation for our lives or our own and before we know it we become weary, lost and lack the passion in our lives we once had. This podcast will help settle you in a place of peace no matter where you are in…

  • PODCAST: Stop Running From Who You Really Are!

    PODCAST: Stop Running From Who You Really Are!

    Do you live your life for the approval of others or according to your own convictions and values? If you are stuck in “approval mode”, this nugget of inspiration can get you out of the mire and on the road to embracing who you really are and want to be!!! LISTEN NOW