Hold on to your dreams. Keep them where they’re easy to see. Don’t let naysayers have even a toehold into separating you from them. Your dreams don’t define who you are, and they do accent your individuality. You’re not the exact same as anyone else on the planet. You were uniquely designed by your living, loving Creator. God gave you gifts, talents, dreams, and … Read the rest…
Would you believe there are still guys who travel from town to town with the ol’ love ’em and leave ’em motto etched in their minds? This is something I sang about a few years back in a song called “Lightning Love”. As you know, lightning love strikes quickly and never in the same place twice. And it almost always leaves a negative, indelible … Read the rest…
Will Your Last Home Be In The House of the Lord?
It’s a great and reassuring feeling to know I’m gonna live in the house of the Lord forever. I wish everyone could know that feeling and understand how important it is not to throw life away. But the vast majority of human beings would rather BE god than TRUST God. And so they’ll exist forever, but they won’t LIVE forever. Do you know the … Read the rest…
Give Up Control and Restore Your Soul
As a Christian, I can say it’s not a matter of “what” but “who” can restore your soul. I have complete confidence that the Bible is the Word of God and the whole Truth about His abounding grace toward me. And I also know that no matter how much I believe and trust this, it isn’t necessarily true to everyone who might be reading … Read the rest…
Why Can’t You Leave Your Troubles Behind?
If I told you to leave your troubles behind and move forward, would you get mad at me? Would you explain to me that I can’t possibly understand your troubles and therefore don’t have the right to tell you such a thing? Well, what if I told you this message is from God? What would you say then? Yeah, a reading of the New … Read the rest…
There are lots of different kinds of heart problems. Everybody suffers from one kind or another. Everybody. For example…I was born with a deformed heart. My “condition” is called “bicuspid aortic valve.” Where a normal heart has 3 parts to the aortic valve, mine has only 2. So, it tends to be what one doctor described to me as “leaky.” And it doesn’t push … Read the rest…
Never say never. Never again. Or never is a long, long time. Never give up. And of course…Neverland. It seems there’s no end to the way we humans use that word. I’m no exception. I used it twice in the title of one of my old songs, “Never Neverland”. I don’t tend to write many songs based on negative or bad experiences. But this … Read the rest…