Suzanne Hinn, wife of tele-evangelistic Benny Hinn, filed for divorce today.  The two have been living separately for the past three weeks.
When I heard the news, my immediate response was to feel extremely sarcastic and condemning.  It’s amazing, I thought, how he can “heal” everyone who comes to his miracle healing services, but he can’t [...]

As I said in the first Dream-Killers post, you can’t really kill your dreams.  You can, however, cause them to need life-support by constantly suppressing them. And nothing suppresses our dreams like continuing the same plan, but expecting different results.
That’s the second Dream Killer:  Continuing on with the same plan, but expecting different results this [...]

That’s a lousy title, because it’s not really true.  There’s actually nothing that can kill our deepest dreams and desires, because God put them there.  A better title might be “Dream Suppressors”.
In my life, I’ve watched people who are entirely alive to their dreams and desires.  I’ve also watched people who have completely given up, [...]

When I was a pastor, the paid and volunteer leaders got together for a yearly weekend retreat.  Most years, we talked about the good, the not-so-good, and the opportunities we had for the future.  One year, though, the agenda was thrown out the window.
That was the year we all repented.
Every one of us.
It was as [...]

Jesus said…
Follow me, and I will make you:
* Successful.
* Theologically accurate.
* Politically influential.
* Healthy.
* Persuasive.
* Worthy of a mass Twitter following.
* Wealthy.
* Popular within the Christian subculture.
* A mega-church pastor.
* A nano-church pastor.
Even though we’d never admit to any of these core beliefs, I wonder if we ever wrestle with putting our own definition in [...]