Are you a spiritual trainer?

The term “personal trainer” has become common over the last few years as more and more Americans have a desire to get in better shape and win the battle of the bulge.  A personal trainer is one who guides you through the process, showing you what you need to do to achieve your fitness goals. Have you ever thought of yourself as a personal spiritual trainer?  If you are a pastor, minister, teacher,...

“Moving” Thoughts

CNN’s Roland Martin has a piece posted on the website yesterday that is not what you normally read on CNN.com: Continue to pray and meditate on being in a place where you are constantly being fed and taught. And if it feels like you are going over the same lessons over and over, don’t fret and begin to badmouth the pastor and the deacons. That could simply be God’s way of saying that you have...

Blest Be The Tie

I have a confession to make: I am a Baptist.  I’ve spent most of my life around Baptists. Over the years I’ve discovered that in Baptist churches there are a lot of things that are common to almost all of them.  Just like you can walk into a McDonald’s anywhere in the world and order a Big Mac and know it will taste the same, you can go to most Baptist churches and find a lot of the same things on...

He Was Only Visiting This Planet

Larry Norman, the grandfather of contemporary Christian music went to be with the Lord early yesterday morning.  He had been dealing with serious health issues for the last 15 years but continued to make music almost up to the time he went home to heaven. Norman’s 1972 album, “Only Visiting This Planet” is considered by many to be the best Christian album ever recorded. His 1969 song “I Wish...

Brother John

Bishop John Gimenez passed away last week and his funeral was today at 1:00 pm.  John was the co-founder of one of the East Coast’s first charismatic megachurches, Rock Church in Virginia Beach, and the overseer of their network of 500 affiliated churches worldwide.  His massive 1980 rally Washington For Jesus mobilized half a million believers from all corners of the Body of Christ and helped solidify Ronald...