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God Is Creation: How Do You Discover Jesus In Creation? Love Is God’s Character Shown To The World. (Video)

God reveals Himself to us so we know who He is and know who we are. Creation reveals God’s loving nature to provide for us.

God Is: Creation – God Did Not Stop Creating After Genesis. He’s Creating Something In You Today. Will You Receive? (Podcast)

God reveals Himself to us so we know who He is and know who we are. The Bible is God’s primary way of communicating with us.

God Is: Revelation – How to Hear God Speak to You Today. Are You Willing to Hear What He Has to Say? (Podcast)

God reveals Himself to us so we know who He is and know who we are. The Bible is God’s primary way of communicating with us.

God Is: Trinity -You Can’t Connect With God Without First Knowing God. Get To Know Him Fully (Podcast)

The one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons – Father, Son , Holy Spirit. Each are fully and equally God in eternal relations with each other.

#30ROCK Faith Challenge | Grow Close To God

#30ROCK Faith Challenge is just for you. Our 30-Day guided challenge focuses on discipling your Spiritual, Mental and Physical growth.

Wear Your Witness: Supporting Ministry

Our soft and stylish t-shirts are not only comfortable but are a perfect way to encourage others and open the door to share Jesus Christ with them.

Do You Have The Need To Bleed?

The instability of how someone may feel on a certain day as an anchor for giving you worth is toxic.

Reflect Light

What happened to your little light? Was it dimmed by addiction, divorce, disappointment, abuse, dysfunction, depression or defeat?

Choose Your Weapon 🔥

SWAT, which stands for Special Weapons and Tactics, allowed access to resources most people will never imagine, but I continue to use the only one that both protected and convicted me.

The Second Day

The Second Day… Don’t miss the blessings of today as you recoup from the Good Friday activities and prepare for Easter Sunday’s []

God Vision 2021: Global Resources

The Message God told Leah and I to offer up the personal publishing business we’d built over the years to the public. []

How Obedience After Retirement Led To A New Business Serving Christ

Learn how you too can create new opportunities in your life through obedience.    

Do You Feel Unworthy Of Receiving God’s Good Gifts?

I was not a good receiver because I always assumed there was a catch to true receiving or that I had to reciprocate the giving.

Walking Through Your Life’s Wilderness Season: Obscurity Is Not Punishment

Blessings In Truth I’ll be honest. I struggled. I struggled a lot, and without anyone to share big time truths with me []

2020 – Were You Expecting Something Different?

The good news is that the end of this existence is actually the beginning of what God created us for – to live in eternity with Him.

An Open Letter To America’s Lukewarm Christians

(Note: If this offends you, then you might be who needs to read it twice) Dear Lukewarm Christian, Don’t mistake Trump for []

Do You Linger?

Without chaotic distractions my mind would begin to rumble before churning into full-blown danger mode. My remedy was to stay distracted with other distracting thoughts, activities or people.

🙏 “I Just Want To Stay Neutral.” Well, You Can’t.” 🙏

“I just want to stay neutral.” That’s a message I received about a post I shared. I didn’t reply back to force []

Did The Devil Actually Make You Do It?

I know when people see a headline like this, or anything to do with addressing the reality of demonic spirits, they’ll skip []

Jesus Needed His Space. So Do We

Jesus Needed His Space. So Do We The middle of September found me busier than the last six months, but just as []

Never Forget, But Have We Already?

I know it’s hard because most of us have been abused at some point by someone we trusted, but this isn’t that situation.

Why I Walked Away From Church And You Should Too.

I’m not angry with the institutionalized big-box store churches, but I am praying that they come to understand that collecting butts in their auditorium seats isn’t the same as Jesus’ Great Commission:

Was Peter a Failure Or a Water Walker?

Was Peter a Failure Or a Water Walker? The Holy Spirit is on the move this week and He’s prompting you to []

Stay Salty My Friend

He’d rather you be against Him than to claim you are in Him while you’re living in the world. It’s good to be salty, or should I clarify; it’s good to be Spiritually Salty!

What Five Kings Must You Kill?

Joshua was the man on a mission. God’s mission. His obedience and teachable spirit allowed him to walk in God’s will as he experienced victory after victory.

Garden of Eden Lessons For Social Media

God said it wasn’t good for man to be alone. While this example is popular for marriage lessons, I want to expand it to talk about social media.

Can You Hang On For $100 Dollars?

What happens within the atmosphere of discontent and rejection is we may either become bored, defiant or indifferent in our waiting. 

Just Before the River Ran Dry: Waymaker

As a Thank You for supporting Five Stones Church Online, I’m giving a free copy of my latest book, UnBreakable: From Past Pain to Future Glory to the first 100 supporters. 

Feeling Squeezed By Your Past? Cutting Soul Ties

Still Trapped? I realize this is an odd question after months of major restrictions, but do you ever feel trapped? I mean []

10 Tips For Finding Peace In Today’s Chaotic World

Does that mean every day is filled with sunshine and snowballs? Of course not, but peace is a constant state of being that helps us through perilous times of conflict.

Is This Our Final 4th of July, Independence Day Celebration?

But there’s a sinister atmosphere in this nation that we’ve never known. Even darker these days than the light of a once bright American Spirit can pierce.

Can You Grow Tired Of God?

Don’t grow weary because you’ve cast your energies toward social media propaganda and ran out of gas for pursuing Jesus Christ.

Along Came A Spider: Shaun King Crawling Across Church Rubble

Instead of building empires, the closure of physical structures forced observants out of their cozy seats and pre-service latte grande coffee lines.

You’re Never Lost Along the Backside of the Desert

I assure you He has not abandoned you nor forsaken you. God is about to bust open a mighty work in your life if you will just be patient along the backside of your desert.

Father’s Day Can Be A Tough One

As a matter of fact, Father’s Day is an annual reminder of the distant and dysfunctional connection I had with my own dad.

Anger – Keeping It In Check

Remember last December when there was so much hope and optimism about the new you in the new year? There was something magical about 2020!

Mullet Life. The Great Deception

Don’t allow open sanctuary doors to become more about, “Hello” than “Hallelujah”.

Hit The Wall Yet? How Many Times?

I think it was Bruce Lee who said “Be water.” It’s important to remain fluid in certain situations and understand that ultimately we are not in control.

Let Me Be Honest – I Struggled This Week. A Lot

Grabbing brief moments of distraction helps, but it’s not the answer. God is the answer and the only way we will have that peace that surpasses all understanding is to press into our relationships with Jesus Christ.

How Is the Return of Christ Connected to the 2020 Census?

While lingering in the Spirit, God shared these truths with the instructions to share them with you. I don’t make any assumptions as I was only led to share, but here you go:

Get the Hell Out of Church

The true church has been set free from their favorite pews, Holy Spirit-imitating fog machines and high-priced guess speakers. This is not the church as God empowered it.

You Asked For It, You Got It

Isn’t it amazing that the very things we clung to as markers of living an informed life such as celebrities, athletes and influencers have immediately vanished, yet no one has barely noticed?

COVID-19: Making Everything Alright, Or At Least Better.

Watching social media all day for updates of infection and death data wears on the spirit.

From Social Ghost to Holy Ghost: Surviving Police Retirement

Life was falling apart and all I could do was crumble atop the people closest to me. My wife and kids were dodging emotional boulders, and ducking away from tumbling personality projectiles.

Men And Church: We’ve Made Both Disposable

Our hopes, dreams, value and personal footprint becomes easily blown away, and thus we become disposable.

Your Level Of Sin Depends On Where You Sit In The Church

Maybe it’s because I’ve also spent the last many years with church bodies that look like everyone just crawled off of the battlefield, and were praising God for the chance to get right back out there to fight for others.

Why Sitting In Church Is Bad For Men

Staff men’s ministries with volunteers of actual men who’ve messed up more in life than leaving a dog-eared copy of the latest men’s grooming magazine on the counter.

Profiles In Personal Pain: Which One Are You?

What’s really eating away at you? Are regrets consuming your thoughts so you’re forced to shut them down? Can you sit in []

Sex Strikes And Bullying: Why It’s Great For America

Unless you’re married, you should be on a sex strike, or as everyone else in the world calls it; chastity. By no longer having unwed intercourse…

Men With Friends: Choosing Them Wisely

People influence who we are and who we become. If you want to become a better person, you need better friends. Why? Because you will begin to adapt the habits and practices of those guys you spend time with.