Tonight I attended a candlelight service at Granger Community Church. It has been years since I have been to one and this particular one began at 11pm and ended a little after midnight. It was wonderfully put together – with beautiful lighting and imagery and worship songs interwoven with thoughts from the pastor and many…

“How I want to see the weight of glory break my thick scales, the weight of glory smash the chains of desperate materialism, split the numbing shell of deadening entertainment, bust up the ice of catatonic hearts. I want to see God, who pulls on the coat of my skin and doesn’t leave me alone…

Thankful today for long drives down dirt roads through open fields with the sun shining down and the wind rushing by and Isaac Meyer’s beautiful acoustic guitar playing… I have been in such an acoustic mood lately — guitar, piano. Maybe it’s the weather… the changing season. Anyway, the Lord is good in the midst…

“Most of us don’t use our mouth at all for what God gave it to us for. There is great power and authority in words. The kind of power depends on the kind of words. We can curse our future by speaking evil of it or we can bless it by speaking well of it.”…