Sara has a passion for reading. She’ll read more books in a month than I will in five years. When she and Stephanie were young, I’d read them bedtime stories. I enjoyed it, but after reading the same story for the 27th time I’d occasionally want to speed things up a bit by skipping a page or three. Not on Sara’s watch. “Dad, that’s NOT how the story goes!” Every…single…time. She was also less than thrilled when I’d try skipping words, or changing them altogether. Personally, I thought the story of “Rindercella and the Three Gairy Fodmothers”

As a new Christian, I found the study of the spiritual realm fascinating, and had a lot of questions needing to be answered. Can houses really be haunted? Are mediums real, and can the dead speak to the living? Does demonic possession still exist, and if so, how does it happen? What can demons actually do, and what power does Satan have? I’m sure some thought my venture into this study so early in my faith walk seemed a bit unusual, but if you’re going to battle you need to know the strengths and weaknesses of your

The song "Wanna Be More" by BeBe and CeCe Winans captures the heart cry of Jesus. (I've included the song in this post, please listen) Here's the chorus... I wanna be more than just somebody I wanna be more than just a friend I wanna be more than someone special See, 'cause special friends sometimes won't understand Jesus wants to be more, but do we let him? If I could say the one thing we all need in today's world, it would be to know God. Paul said he counted everything a loss for the excellency

Learning how to study your Bible is important, but equally important is answering the questions of the why and the what.  Why are you studying? What are you looking for in its pages?  In John 5:39, Jesus tells the Pharisees, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” (NKJV) Other versions translate “search” as “pore over” (CSB), “study” (NIV), and “search and keep on searching” (AMP).  It’s clear they were committed to the study of Scripture, yet they was so fixated on their