Everything starts with God’s heart as a Father and His love for us. He wanted to create a family with real children made in His image (Genesis 1:26). There had to be a divine pattern for human beings in the...
It may seem odd that a family would make a list of idols in America. But, family can be a considerable impediment to discovering and fulfilling your God-given life purpose. I certainly am not adding my voice to the vast numbers...
I had only been in Los Angeles for a short time, and I was already witnessing another beating, this one in a back parking lot of my apartment building. Five gang members were mercilessly beating a young man, reinforcing the...
As a very young boy sheltered from my parents’ troubles, I thought our home was filled with love. Carefree with a full stomach, I was wrapped up in playing soccer, going to school, watching my favorite cartoons, and just doing...
Of all the cultures that have had access to excess, America is very likely the most excessive of all. As I have said for many years, our nation is rolling in excess, reveling in luxury, revolting in morals, and rotting...
God Turned My Crazy Life Upside Down. If you peer closely into my eyes, you will see they reflect both deep pain and, ironically, deep peace. Just below my right eye, I have a tattoo of the tres puntos, the...
What is it that fuels the engine of celebrity culture? There is no single answer—the reasons are complex, even contradictory. We want our celebrities to be ordinary, just like the rest of us; then again, we want them to be...
…the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them. —Jeremiah 50:38 (NLT) Here we have a portion of the prophetic judgment which Jeremiah proclaimed over the mighty Babylonian empire at its crescendo of...
In our broken and damaged world, there is no question that the family unit has in particular become a focal point of the enemy. Destroying the family unit destroys the very foundational building blocks of which God intended for us...
