There are a couple of people in scripture who had absolutely unenviable ministries. For real. How many of us would sign-up to deliver God’s message to people that God flat-out told us would never listen? Enter the prophet Jeremiah. (Jer. 7:27) The people were so grateful that Jewish tradition says they stoned him to death. […]

I watched a shocking interview between two famous television evangelists where the two of them were discussing the need that they had for fleets (yes, fleets) of private jets to get them from one ministry appointment to another. I’m not at all opposed to ministries owning private jets if that is what is necessary for […]

Biblical prophecy is a fascinating study. According to experts, as of today, 87% of prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled. (The remaining 13% will be fulfilled in the end times.) The chances that all of these prophecies could be accurately predicted in the way that they were apart from Divine intervention is astronomical! Take, […]

Sometimes the hand of God in a situation is so powerful and so dramatic that even non-believers find it too obvious to ignore. Such is the case of Nebuzaradan, commander of the guard under King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. When the Babylonian army completely destroyed the city of Jerusalem and carried out all but the […]

If you have ever made it through the entire book of Jeremiah, it feels exactly like watching a parent with a naughty child. The parent has warned, threatened, and begged their child to stop behaving so badly and the kid just. won’t. stop. Finally, the parent has had enough. The hammer is coming down! The […]

Have you ever had God knock you upside the head with the truth? I had it happen this week. I was driving along when, out of the blue, I got a call from a very well-known ministry office. The sweet woman on the other end of the phone informed me that this well-known person was […]

Read until the very end of the book of Esther and you might just say, “Wow! That is not the Veggie Tales version of that story!” We tend to end the telling of Esther’s story with the triumphant moment when evil Haman is swinging from a gallows and Esther has saved her people. “On the […]

I recently had a conversation with a woman who was devastated that her niece, whom she had not bothered to see more than a handful of times, and had no real relationship with, was not enthusiastically taking her advice on dating and marriage, now that the aunt had all of a sudden decided to jump […]

It is chilling indeed when a leader loses touch with the people he or she is leading. When that leader is the monarch of an enormous kingdom, it is downright petrifying! This is the exact situation that we encounter in Esther chapter four. The third chapter of the book of Esther closes with some ominous […]

If there is such a thing as an “easy” marriage (which I doubt), my husband and I did not get one. Like every marriage, our success hinges on both of us putting in a tremendous amount of effort. Do you want to know the truth? Sometimes its hard to want to keep working. During a […]