How do you gain victory over something like unforgiveness? A step at a time. My mom told me about a painful experience she and my dad had during their early…

Spirituality is like food and drugs.   Drugs can be mixed with food either by an enemy, as poison, or by a physician, as medicine. Either way, the drugs go…

Having victory implies there is some kind of fight going on. We know ultimate victory is given to us by Jesus, who won it all on the cross. We know…

Hurt people, hurt people.   Sometimes even the nicest people get angry. And when they do, they’re capable of remarkable hurt and meanness. There are usually good ways of dealing…

Victory means—at least in part—being able to see something for what it really is. It means exposing that which is hidden or revealing a fraud.   The death of Jesus…

Hosea 13.14 says, “I will ransom them from hell; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plague; O hell, I will be your destruction.”  …

Awhile back I was feeling super frustrated. There were some folks close to me who seemed to constantly be getting in the way of my plans and my desires, whether…

Carmel and I recently began watching Downton Abbey. It’s not my kind of show, yet I can’t help but love it. The characters are fascinatingly flawed, and the plot never…

A victor acts a certain way and a victim another. Victors enjoy their spoils. They celebrate. They laugh. They throw parties. Victims diminish into the background, shy and reclusive for…

When I was a kid growing up in church we used to sing this song, Victory in Jesus. And, whether it was the song or something else, it seemed like…