• Retreat Center

    How Can You Listen to God?

    If you have accepted Jesus Christ, then God is ready to speak to you right now. Not words of condemnation or disappointment, but of love and forgiveness and peace. The question is — will you listen? And the natural next question — how do you listen? Because God is speaking, but we don’t always slow down enough to hear the still, small voice. How can you hear God? The Word. First and foremost he speaks to us through the Bible, his Word. Anytime we hear from him any other way — directly, through nature, in dreams and vision, through others — we must always put up those words against the…

  • Retreat Center

    Updating

    I’m going to start updating the site again! I’m actively teaching but haven’t been uploading my stuff to the site. Part of the reason is I’m pursuing my doctorate of ministry and am busy with the writing phase of that degree. But I felt a strong shove from God this morning to write again for the blog. And heh, when the Creator of the Universe shoves you, you’d best hop to it!

  • Retreat Center

    My Heart Is Burdened

    My heart is so burdened for my non-Christian friends this morning, especially my pagan friends. Yep, I have a lot of those — pagans and/or Wiccans. I love them and am frankly afraid for them. Paganism and Wicca are not any worse than any other false religion but any false religion will get you eternal separation from God! So I’m scared for them as they cheerily wish each other “Happy Winter Solstice.” But Christ alone is the fulfillment of this religion and any other. Pagans look to the seasons of the world and the return of the light — and Christ is the Light of the World. Jews look to…