Do This Before Asking God To Change Others…
First become the vessel God needs you to be to receive His blessing.
Taming Lions Or Running From Them?
Do you feel like Daniel in the lion’s den? If so, there is no fear of the beasts. God will protect you and bless you even in your darkest times.
In Due Time…Are You Ready To Receive It?
God is going to bless you, but you must become the vessel to receive that blessing.
Patience – Purposeful – Intentional
What Golden Calf Are You Worshiping?
But I understood that we do the same thing when we create our own golden calves. It might be our job, or hobby, or new girlfriend or even our kids.
What Is God Trying To Say To You This Year?
What Is God Trying To Say To You This Year? Start the year out with purpose and intentionality in everything you do.
God’s Words For Your New Year: Purposeful and Intentional
Two words God gave me for 2019 are Purposeful and Intentional. You may grow tired of hearing them, but I know they were meant for you too.
Approaching The New Year Happily
The frenzy to make resolutions is more about traditions than realistic expectation to uphold the silent pledge just before the stroke of midnight.
Building A Better Man
Many religions no longer feed the masculine soul of a man. Why? Because the shift toward single moms and grandparents raising their progeny has tilted the church’s focus toward our wonderful sisters.
It wasn’t their choice—it was our absence.
I’m Ready Now / But It’s After Midnight
I knew I needed to get back to training to make up for the snacking between Thanksgiving and the New Year. I was half, well, actually not very motivated at all.
I Am Who You Say I Am: Are You Really?
Who cares? Let’s only focus only on who God says we are.
Power to the People (God’s People)
Power to the People (God’s People) I often wonder how many men who finally drop their hard exterior to accept the free […]
25 Days of 31: Broken and Blue
There are a lot of great cops doing almost impossible things under the most dire of circumstances. And that’s even before they go on duty. When I was led by God to retire from law enforcement, I just knew He was going to give me something special in return. He did. It’s my life.
24 Days of 31: How Could You
Having to explain what you did, why you did it and how it is that you now have peace because of what you did placed the relationship in a bind, but friendship reset the balance.
23 Days of 31: You Can Fix That
Everyone has hurt in their life. I mean, how can you not. This doesn’t mean everyone was abused or abandoned, or suffered through childhood. Maybe it was the loss of a parent or child, or divorce.
Breaking The Chains Of Past Pain | Five Stones
“I stopped living the same year over and over again, and started taking control of my life by using the very truths I’m sharing with you.” Dr. Scott Silverii for Five Stones University.
22 Days of 31: I Don’t Belong
Therein lies my plight. Although I’ve spent my entire career being in the center, I never felt that I belonged wherever it was I found myself. I’m not an introvert by any stretch of the imagination, but there’s always this nagging tick of inferiority.
21 Days of 31: Candle in the Wind
Keeping our candle lit is the difference between cold extinguished and setting life ablaze. Like any candle, we first need a spark, and the oxygen to fuel the flame.
20 Days of 31: Lift His Name, Raise Your Game
20 Days of 31: Lift His Name, Raise Your Game I don’t use this word lightly, and it’s possible that you’ve not […]
19 Days of 31: Rough is Relative
Being aware of the seasons in our life are important. I especially become aware during the mountaintop moments. Not because they’re incredible and I’m on an emotional high. But, because I know what’s to come.
17 Days of 31: If I Told You My Story
So many people want to wade into the muck and offer advice and opinions across the social streams. They become e-experts with safe responses and pre-calculated comments.
16 Days of 31: Falling In The Gap
See, we’ve not progressed too far beyond that fateful day when mankind fell because of temptation. We’re disobedient and willful. Of course, God allows us free will so that we do have a choice. Otherwise, how could we actually show love if we didn’t have the choice to not show love?
15 Days of 31: The Cold, of Cold
I crawled out from between that downy sandwich and tugged on clothes. Almost out of spite, I was going to prove a point about fashion versus function. Well, I didn’t bother with my trusty one pair of denims as I hurried out with the girls.
14 Days of 31: Put Product On It
This goes all the way back to the beginning – Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve lived in paradise, and that they were naked was of no shame. They had no secrets or need to put “product” on anything.
13 Days of 31: Eye Opener
13 Days of 31: Eye Opener Have you ever read something, and loved it so much that you came to know it […]
12 of 31 Days: The Fly and Corpse
As a young kid, I thought it was fantastic, and had visions of Stabler, Staubach, Bradshaw, Manning (Archie) and Tarkenton. In reality, it was a horrible idea to allow a 13 year old to go unsupervised. The score reflected it.
11 Days of 31: The Ebb and Flow
One of my most beloved pastors, Ronnie Melancon once explained why we get so exhausted after attending worship service. There’s a spiritual drop off after the mountain top experience. It’s not a bad thing he said, because we need the time to refresh.
10 Days of 31: Going Too Far
10 Days of 31 Days: Going Too Far We’ve been allowing the puppy the freedom to roam throughout the house of late. […]
9 of 31 Days: I Don’t See It
And sometimes, if I’m lucky, I get to go a few hours without seeing the faces of the injured, the abused or the murdered. Though I don’t think I’d like them to completely go away as they remind me of why I’ve done what I’ve done on their behalf.
8 of 31 Days: It Was Me
8 of 31 Days: It Was Me Have you ever felt your spouse’s tears roll across your shoulder? Over the last few […]
7 of 31 Days: I’m Going Back
But, I was left with more questions than answers. While it may have help illuminate questions for many others, I found myself still in the dark.
6 Days of 31 Days: Made For Relationships
I never knew the depths of true brotherhood until connecting on a spiritual level that had nothing to do with your rank or how many arrests you made.
5 of 31 Days: Life In Transit
She likes to pack, and since I’m more partial to throwing a business suit into a plastic bag, she’d rather organize the goods. The caveat is that I don’t get to complain if her selections aren’t my favorites. It’s a fair system.
4 of 31 Days: Forgiving Is Kinda Big Deal
I think most men struggle with it because we are under the impression that forgiving someone lets them off the hook for what they did to hurt us. We amp up in the fantasy of getting even or an upper hand through revenge.
3 of 31 Days: Maybe Doc Was Wrong
I love it. I have a wooden table-top on sawhorse type stands and a straight-back wooden chair without any type of padding.
2 of 31 Days: Running From God’s Friend
He showed me to pursue friendships instead of expecting them because of my position and what others I could do for me. I had been a consumer of relationships instead of a giver of my time and attention.
1 of 31 Days: What Is It To Be Good
We’re basically free to do as we please no matter the hurt or harm to others. Why? because the gaggle of cohorts will also be good once you all agree to terms 1 or 2 of the definition.
Freedom From Pain? Broken And Blue Is Required Reading For LEO & Family
Broken and Blue: A Policeman’s Guide to Health, Healing and Hope This is possibly the most important project I’ve ever worked on. […]
FIT@50: Forgot The Powder
FIT@50: Forgot the Powder This week was what we like to refer to as Crazy Week. Not because life got out of […]
Mark Of The Beast: Are We Logging Into It?
It’s time to stand watch, and become aware of what the wicked one is doing to God’s people. Ideology is much harder to defend against than an enemy of flesh and bone.
Men, Sex & Marriage
Has sexual sin trapped you the darkness of pain, shame or regret? The light of Christ will set the captive free!!!
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Protect Your Family Time
But, oh my soul, come the weekends, we transform into “Guardians of the Galaxy” protective about sharing time outside the circle of family.
FIT@50: What’s Life Over 50 Like?
If you ever want to experience the confidence shattering sensation of having every single thing you say and do examined under a critical microscope and launched back at you with a poo-poo shooter, then give law enforcement a try for a day.
It’s What Heroes Do | Thank God For Them
Spoken, it inspires the faithful to be strong and courageous. With reckless expectation, press the fight no matter the foe, and without ever considering the possibility of defeat.
FIT@50: Did You See That?
As a group of what looked like super model mixed company passed us, I peeked down at my supermarket flip flops. I laughed at the bottle opener built into the sole.
Unforgiveness: It’s Your Jailer
It’s sort of a pain prison where the ones we refuse to forgive are our jailers.
Dating Your Spouse: Blue Marriage
Love shifts your self-centered worldview into a shared, or partner-focused lens.
Sex In Marriage: Yes, How About You?
God’s plan for sexual fulfillment works… God wants you to enjoy sex in marriage and to have that enjoyment for the rest of your married life.
It Doesn’t Always Go The Way You Planned
And closure comes in life’s transitions… I chose to retire on August 28th because it had held such a devastating association over […]
FIT@50: Two Pounds
FIT@50: Two Pounds This week I was watching the boys out back as they discovered a pile of Leah’s padded dumbbells. They […]
Time Marches On: Try Marching Against It
Does it ignite an action, or calm an anxiety over an impending appointment? Maybe, and most probably, it’s just a habit or a method of marking our progress throughout a day.