The Root of a Complaining Spirit is…

December 22, 2011

A couple weeks ago, my good friend, Justin Wallace asked me a question about the root issue with inadequacy and with complaining.  He leads a campus ministry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  He sees the issue of inadequacy in university students and he sees the issue of complaining in our culture in [...]

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The Benefits of Being Tempted to Doubt

December 6, 2011

As He was grabbing on to Peter as he slipped beneath the water, Jesus asked him, “Why did you doubt?”  At a different time, Jesus told his disciples that they could move mountains through prayer if they did not doubt.  James says doubters are like waves of sea, blown and tossed by the wind.  Jude [...]

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WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAND?

October 10, 2011

God asked Moses this question in Exodus 4:2.  Moses was waffling on God’s call.  I wonder if I often do the same.  I find myself focusing on what I “do not have” opposed to “what God has already provided”. In Judges 7, Gideon didn’t have much of an army.  He must have had some doubt [...]

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