Praisewind Ministries

Love.  February is the month of love.  Ooey, gooey, chocolate and roses kind of love. 

Don’t get me wrong.  I appreciate going out to dinner and getting a present.  I like feeling special.  But true love isn’t about romance and fluttery feelings. 

Love is a choice.  It is a choice when husband and wife are in disagreement over everything and can’t find common ground.  It is a choice when a child tells you they hate you and spits on all you do for them.  It is a choice when a friend betrays you.  It was a…

In light of the tragedy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last night, I am reminded that we live in a fallen world.  Was this act racially motivated?  Maybe.  But I know that racism is just one more tool that Satan uses to cause a divide, a rift, between God and humans.  This young man did not just kill black people.  He did not just kill Christians.  He killed humans—God’s creations.  He committed an act that was perpetrated by the ruler of this world.

When God first created man in His image…

Memories.  What do you remember?  Are they your memories or are they the memories that others have told you about?

I believe that we are defined by our experiences in life.  Some of those experiences, however, are overshadowed by how we remember the event.  Or how someone else has told us the event occurred.

No matter what actually occurs, if you have a group of people who are discussing a shared event, they will have different memories of what happened.  No one is lying or being deceptive, but our brain…

One night at church, a lady prayed for me and said that God wanted me to get started on the project He gave me several months ago.  I was not sure what she meant.  I thought that maybe it meant that I needed to get busy proofreading David’s new book, but that just didn’t seem right.  So, I walked away not having a clue.

The next morning, as I was waking up and just letting my mind think on the night before, I heard from the Lord that He wanted me to get busy writing a blog.  This is an idea that had been…