Episodes

The flesh is trying to teach us how to gain the world and lose our soul. The Spirit enlightens us we can't lose our souls. The Holy Spirit is perfectly aware that we don't recognize our true selves. That's why …

Most men have no inner resources to help them escape the trap of their egos. When our emotions get in the way our vision gets narrow. A spiritual man like Joseph kept one eye on God even when he was …

In this episode, I had an informative conversation with a good friend of mine on the Stereo app about accepting reality. Our expectations exert tremendous discomfort in our lives when we don't get what we want.

An intimate relationships must go through major reconstruction during recovery. It pertains to removing self-defeating patterns that have become embedded during active addiction.

Restoring trust takes time. Our words played an important role in addiction. They helped us stay in our self-made prison. We must proceed to do the next best thing until our words again have value. People who we have hurt …

Learn to pay attention to what you tell yourself. Our internal dialogue has the power to calm us or make us feel inadequate. Our sense of who we are is wrapped up in our thoughts.

We have two choices. We can continue making unreasonable demands and becoming frustrated when things don't spin our way. Or we can surrender our lives to God and live at peace with ourselves and the world.

We are so focused on how we have been victimized that we fail to see how we have been harming ourselves. We wounded a lot of people, but most of all, we harmed ourselves.

Spiritual food is just as real as physical food. It satisfies us in a way that cannot be satisfied with anything physical. Fame, sex, or money cannot fill our spiritual void. Until we have a personal relationship with Christ...

Most of us can't be ourselves because we don't know who we are. We learned to be whoever we needed to be to fit in. The Bible is a spiritual mirror revealing and uncovering our defects and assets. We use …

At this time, this pandemic is the worst thing in the world. However, what we can not see is God orchestrating a whole new calling on our lives. One of God's strategies for directing His children's step is to get …

God wants us to grow up. We can grow and learn every moment of every day if we are open to the lesson. Learning isn't limited to the classroom. It takes place in the kitchen and on the streets. The …

We all have moments of gloom in our recovery. We get through those unsettling times by faith. The first thing to leave you when you relapse is your spirit, and it's the last thing that comes back when you stop …

There comes a time in life; we realize that the way we see ourselves is not necessarily the way others do. When we are physically hungry, we don't think correctly. Well, it's the same way when our spirit is starving …

Have you ever experienced some unfair situations in which somebody did you wrong or mistreated you? Maybe you've struggled financially, and you don't see how you can ever get ahead. I have good news for you!

We are part of something much more significant than ourselves. The unity that we have in Christ is part of the grand design. God gave us the ministry of reconciliation. God reconciled us back to Himself, back to each other, …

Without a spiritual connection with God and others, our greatest need goes unmet. When we are driven by our flesh and ego, we are living as slaves in our self-made prison.

The deeper we look within ourselves, the greater the treasures we will find. Within we will find the joy, strength, peace, freedom and love we have been seeking.

We need to see ourselves as God does-- a creature, wonderfully crated, made by the very hands of God. He has good, pleasing, and perfect plans for us, his children. But first, he needs to transform us from the inside …

When we know who we are and believe it, our dreams are possible. Our sense of worth must first come from within.

Many people profess they are Christians and think Sunday worship is 'God's time' but the rest of their time is spent living in the world the way that pleasing to themselves.

Guard against judging the lives of others by taking a look at yourself. There will be times in the future for us to help others after we are responsible for our own lives.

Where did Jesus first find you? How did He get you to join Him? What wrongs do you need to make right?

In continuation with the parable of the Prodigal Son, I discuss how the father must have felt when his sons disobey him. This lesson shows us how God must feel when we hurt Him, and He still can forgive.