The Heart of a Warrior

“God’s desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him!”

Take some time to grab a journal and walk with Jesus back into your own pain. Hold his hand as you search out the wounding packages. When did you receive them? What are the messages they contain? Here and now you can exchange them for healing.

The gospel is about way more than just being forgiven for sin. Wonderful though that is, if we stop there, then we’re vastly short-selling the hugeness, the surpassing glory, of what God has accomplished through Jesus. The gospel is about restoration, a future, and a hope. For all you bottom-line guys, here is what the gospel in its fullness is abo

Until we are trained, then regardless of our standing as believers, our false self will be the voice that speaks most of the time about most things. Complaining, accusing, labeling, judging, being impatient and frustrated, name calling, overdramatizing, getting angry and vengeful—all are a part of false self’s commentary.

Try this: Missions find you. You don’t have to find them. A man will have several missions in his lifetime. They are bigger than he knows and always have a purpose that includes both his heart and the hearts of others.

My wife and children needed me to step into my greater role in the Larger Story, the role God created me to play. But how? Serve more, give more, do more? Sin less? That was the good old religious program I had been working at for several years. But it was doing far more harm than good. As with smoking cigarettes or living in a home with asbestos i

The ancient Celts had a saying: “Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance.” Being a Warrior involves more than force. It goes deeper: there is a deftness to it, an intuitiveness, and a gracefulness.

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly. (

The Father is at work authoring, perfecting, and rebuilding something. That something is actually a someone—you and me. The Father is building his sons into men, strong and good men who bear his image. It starts with a foundation of receiving love and advances through healing our hearts through all the means necessary for our becoming his Beloved S