Are you dangerous? Are you a FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH?

Should “the way things are” be afraid of you and the hunger and desperation you have to make next year not a repeat of this year?

Which scares you more attacking your future with a hunger for change or staying the way you are? Are you daring to believe next year can be better than this year or just hoping for nothing to make it worse?

Is there a psychological explanation for a mildly perplexing portion of scripture? There’s a moment in John 8 that has always peaked my curiosity. It is found in a very familiar, often preached section of scripture.

This may sound weird to some of you but I rarely remember my dreams and God rarely speaks to me through my dreams. This morning was different. As my wife and I began our routine this morning I “remembered“ a very fresh, recent moment with God in which He brought something to my attention. As I was “remembering“ this moment I realized the moment didn’t happen. It was the recollection of a moment that “happened“ in a dream from the previous night’s sleep.

I’m using that strange title to communicate the stage or phase of life and ministry in which Coleen and I find ourselves. We feel that we are at the threshold or initial moments of what we would call the third chapter or stage of our life and ministry together. We are blown away by the apparent God-guided trajectory of our lives. We are honored and grateful for where He has taken us and where we have yet to go.

I am a dreamer. My head and my heart spend a lot of time in the realm of currently-unrealized possibilities. I love to think about what could be, what should be. I live in the present as it is. I study the past as it was. I imagine the future as it could be. I think I am a realist but I’m sure that I am an idealist. It’s not OK to be OK with things that are not OK.