I was depressed. I was at my whit’s end. (It happens to pastors, too.) I couldn’t take it any more. Here’s why. It wasn’t that my next door neighbor played his music. It was that he played it so loud, so often, so selfishly (in disregard for the neighborhood). And he had this “box” thing […]
Demons Over The Balcony (Crisis Prayer)
June 11, 2011 by
My mom had a heart attack. The next thing I knew I was on a plane from Minneapolis (where I was going to Bible college) to San Francisco. What added to the tension was it took place as the first Gulf War (1991) was starting. The airports were under heavy guard, fencing and all. Upon […]
A Mountain Top Prayer
May 11, 2010 by
I climbed to a mountain top recently. It wasn’t just any old mountain top. It was the mountain top where I had prayed for a wife many years earlier. I prayed there, “Lord, I want to get married. It needs to be a woman who loves You just like I do.” And so this was […]
How Far We’ve Fallen (A Call to Prayer)
May 4, 2010 by
We don’t pray. Let me explain. You see, there’s this big oil spill off the Louisiana coast and, don’t get me wrong, it’s not like we shouldn’t be busy doing everything possible to stop it, but we ought to be praying, too. (Ya think?) I know. I know. There are people who are praying, but […]
Ask (worship chorus)
January 16, 2010 by
Pastor Mike shares his original worship chorus based on Matthew 7:7-8.
6 Points of Prayer for Your Pastor
October 21, 2009 by
I saw Jimmy Swaggart on TV the other day. And you may or may not know of his moral failure (sin) a couple of decades ago (except for the grace of God there go I), but it can happen with men in the pulpit. Just like us they can succumb to temptation, too. Oh, I […]
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