Author: Administrador

Topics: Faith; Healing; Miracles; Prayer; Supernatural Occurrences References: Matthew 8:17; 1 Corinthians 12:6–10; James 5:13–16 Tyler Clarensau, fifteen, shuffled to the altar in Park Crest Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri, to ask for healing. The surgery he’d had to correct his malformed knee joints had left him with swelling and terrible pain. Forty Pentecostal … Continue reading “WHEN
TYLER GOT HEALED”

Topics: Discernment; Healing; Persistence; Spiritual Perception; Wisdom Reference: Matthew 16:3 I was working as a nurse in a busy emergency room. We had a regular visitor, Billy, a cute two-year-old with freckles and tousled blond hair. For a year Billy had been in and out of the ER with what the doctors diagnosed as asthma. … Continue reading “LOOK
FOR JELLY BEANS”

Topics: Affirmation; Children; Encouragement; Expectations; Parenting; Potential Reference: Ephesians 6:4 He was always in trouble, so when the parents of the junior high boy received another call to meet with his teacher and the principal, they knew what was coming. The teacher said, “Thanks for coming. I wanted you to hear what I have to … Continue reading “FINDING
GOOD IN A TROUBLEMAKER”

Topics: Abuse; Anger; Cruelty; Depravity; Evil; Human Condition; Human Nature; Sin; Temper; Temptation; Violence References: Ecclesiastes 9:3; Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21; 14:38; Romans 7:14–21; Galatians 5:19–21 Journalist Hunter Thompson, longtime contributor to Rolling Stone magazine and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, committed suicide in 2005 at age sixty-seven. His addiction to drugs … Continue reading “THE
MONSTER INSIDE”

Topics: Discernment; Fear; God as Father; God’s Love; Hearing God; Spiritual Perception; Uncertainties; Visions and Dreams References: Psalm 4:8; Matthew 7:7–11; Luke 11:11–13; James 1:16–18 One night in a dream, my wife saw the mangled body of one of our children. She tried to help, but nothing worked. She was helpless, desperate, and terrified. After … Continue reading “DREAM
SENSE”

Topics: Anger; Enemies; Fighting; Grudges; Jealousy; Revenge; Self-control; Temper; Violence References: Genesis 37:3–4; 1 Samuel 18; Proverbs 14:30; Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:26; 1 Peter 2:1 A guard dog ransacked a teddy bear museum in western England in the summer of 2006. Barney, a Doberman pinscher, went berserk, shredding about a hundred of the bears on … Continue reading “ANGER
ON A RAMPAGE”

Topics: Addiction; Intimacy; Loneliness; Lust; Needs; Perversion; Self-control; Self-denial; Self-image; Sex; Sexual Immorality References: Romans 13:13–14; 1 Corinthians 6:12–20; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–8 Sex is one of God’s good gifts for a man and a woman to enjoy within the bounds of marriage. We have a tendency, however, to satisfy our deep longings for intimacy in … Continue reading “FUELING
SEX ADDICTION”

Topics: Crime; Evil; Humanity; Lawlessness References: Deuteronomy 8:19–20; Proverbs 1:10–19; Romans 1:21–32 According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, these crimes occurred at the following rate in the United States in the year 2000: •     theft: every 4.5 seconds •     burglary: every 15.4 seconds •     motor vehicle theft: every 27.1 seconds •     aggravated assault: every 34.6 seconds •     robbery: every … Continue reading “CRIME
IN THE UNITED STATES”

Topics: Denial; Evil; Feelings; Guidance; Hearing God; Murder; Satan; Temptation References: Exodus 20:13; John 8:42–47; 2 Corinthians 11:14–15 In 1992, Wayne Lo, a sophomore at Simon’s Rock College in Massachusetts, killed two people and injured four others with a semiautomatic rifle. During the first years of his imprisonment, he said God had chosen him to … Continue reading “ORDERED
TO KILL”

Topics: Bondage; Demons; Evil; Hindrances; Oppression; Satan; Spiritual Warfare; Supernatural Occurrences References: Matthew 8:28–34; Mark 5:1–20; Luke 8:26–39; Ephesians 6:10–18; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8–9; 1 John 4:1–3 I was part of a church visitation team that had just spent twenty minutes explaining the gospel to a tenderhearted woman. When I asked her, “Are you … Continue reading “DEMONIC
HORN”