Devotional classics describe the kind of writing that has stood the test of time. For me, some of my favorite authors are known as the “Christian Mystics” men and women from mostly the 16th and 17th centuries who have penned some of the most beautiful words ever written… “In order to arrive at having pleasure…
We all have one life to live. A life of time. Our life is measured in terms of time. We are born in time. We grow in time. We learn in time. Time is precious. And it’s fleeting. It never stops. It doesn’t wait for anything. Once time is lost, it’s gone. Never to be…
New Year’s Day – 2018: It was a good start to a new year here at Little Church. With a pretty dense fog hanging over Laguna, we met New Year’s morning on the Easter Sunrise knoll high above the city, where we presented ourselves and the church to the Lord for 2018. “Take us, O…
Ever think you’d see the day when people would worship a robot? If you said ‘no’, think again. Google founder Anthony Levandowski is creating a new religion called “Way of the Future” which worships a god based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), developed through computer software. It makes sense to Levandowski, his new god. “If there…
I live in the realm of hope. It’s what gets me up every morning. Hope is the dream, the vision, the catalyst to believe God has something important in store for me on any given day. Hope makes life worth living. 1st Corinthians 13 says there are three tremendous assets in our Christian life –…
Your Responses to This Series on Rejection Richard Mason Rejection by those we love is a pain that reaches to the depths of our soul and tears us apart, but God provides the soul-restoring, pain-relieving balm that we desperately seek and desire. It is this pain that drives me closer and into a more intimate…
Third in a series Visibly shaken, her eyes welling up with tears, she managed to blurt out, “I’m crushed. Never saw this coming. I don’t know if I will get over it.” I sought to comfort and encourage her but inside I was as thrilled as I could be. She had been engaged to someone…
Second in a series I was asked why I am writing a series on rejection. That’s easy. Rejection is the major reason people come in for prayer or ask to see me. Rejection is a universal malady, we have all experienced it. You have experienced it. I have experienced it. Rejection is so common it…
First in a Series…. It was the last practice before Christmas break and I was sprinting down the court for a layup with teammate George Pelletier hot on my heels. I angled for the basket, went up to lay the ball off the glass, when suddenly George crashed into me, sending me headlong onto the…
Once upon a time there was a nation of pencils who loved to write. They wrote volumes of words, sentences and paragraphs, all bound together in book after book. They called it history. But they had a big problem. Not one of the pencils had an eraser. So when a mistake was made, there was…