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• 21 Keys To Your Benefit Package

  Does your job have benefits?  Does your employer offer. . .health care, 401K plans, paid-vacations, sick days, holidays, flexible spending plans, child care, continuing education or other such benefits?   The offer of health care will not ben...

• Meet Him At His Place

  As frequently happens, I’m writing the conclusion of this blog in the first paragraph. When I started writing the words you’re about to read. . .I did so at the unction of the Holy Spirit. It was only after I’d typed the last w...

• God's Looking For A Few Good Men

  I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. . .so I knew God had a writing assignment for me.  As I opened my computer. . .the first scripture I saw was Psalm 112:5 in the New International Version:   “Good will...

• You Can't Have It Both Ways

  “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”   Matthew 6:24 This morning I feel impressed to write about...

• Why John Dillinger Was Popular

  A few weeks ago, I went to see a movie called “Public Enemy.”  It was the story of John Dillinger.  For a mere fourteen months of activity, John Dillinger became the most famous outlaw in the country and was proclaimed as Public Ene...

• Charater Draws The Financial Anointing

  What does it take to draw a financial anointing into someone’s life?  Money doesn’t draw the anointing.   Power doesn’t draw the anointing.   Prestige doesn’t draw the anointing.   The only thing that con...

• Words Are Powerful

  The 10 Commandments contain 297 words.  The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.   Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.   A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.   Words a...

• What Are You Reproducing In Your Imagination

    I once read, “what you focus on expands in your life.”   As I thought about that statement I realized that. . .  ...

• He Wants To Hold Your Hand

    The very first Beatles song I ever heard was "I Want to Hold Your Hand."   There are a number of people I'd like to hold hands with but the remaining Beatles are not on my list. My daughters would probably disagree, but that&...

• 7 Reasons To Give to Get

  I HATE A LIE ... Do I have your attention? These days, words like “HATE” and “LIE” are supposed to offend our sensitivities. But Jesus never stopped hesitating to tell the Pharisees they were hypocrites and nothing m...

• 162--What Does It Mean To You?

  What does 162 mean to you?  Need a hint?  162 is not money. . .but then it could be. . .that’s your choice.  Would it surprise you to know that 162 is more valuable than money?   I’m going to resist the temptation to pla...

• How Do You Spell Relief

  Have you ever been really thirsty on a hot summer’s day?  I’m talking about your throat being as dry as a west Texas tumbleweed being swept through the wide open prairie.   Finally, after what seems like the longest time, you wrap...

• What Did You Say Your Name Was

   I was sitting on an American Eagle flight en route to Cleveland…at roughly 30,000 feet… reading the word when I came across Proverbs 22:1:  “A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather tha...

• What's Your Price

  Have you ever watched “The Price Is Right?” Truthfully, I’m amused by how much of a fool some people will make of themselves on national television yet they’re too refined to jump up and run around a church in joy when God sets th...

• 1,392 Times

  If you’re proud of your children or grandchildren. . .that’s what you’re going to talk about.   If your favorite sports team is doing well and even if they’re not. . .you’re going to talk  about it.   If yo...

• What Were you Thinking

  Now, let’s be honest. Have you ever been in a conversation where someone was going on and on and on about something you had absolutely no interest in?  Was it somebody close to you? Was it a spouse, a child, a co-worker, your boss or som...

• It's Not Right

  I will never forget the response of an 80-year old man to my inquiry if anyone in a room of hundreds was debt free.  Imagine my delight when he raised his hand and said boldly:   ...

• Hurting Your Family Even Benji

  “What I do with my money is my business and it doesn’t matter what my family thinks because it doesn’t affect them.”  You might expect that comment from a person who isn’t educated enough to know better.   But in...

• 7 Ingredients To A Harvest

  I grew up in eastern North Carolina at the time when it was primarily an agricultural economy.  So, I have a little more than a basic understanding of seedtime and harvest.  There are seven key things every sower should know if they want to rec...

• You Have More Influence Than You Know

  I love teaching about King Hezekiah. I’ve taught it all around the world.  Let’s begin in Isaiah 38:1   “In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, &q...