Mental Musings

Plugging Into the Power of Prayer Prayer - direct communication with the one and only Creator of the Universe. Do we really understand how incredibly fantastic the idea of speaking to God is? We have an instant hotline to the Ruler over everything and there is never a busy signal, He is never away from His desk, He is never in an important meeting and cannot be bothered at the time, and we never get stuck into an endless computerized answering system. We can talk directly to God. If none of that excites you, then perhaps you need to do some serious checking into your relationship with God. I don't see how anyone could be a believer in Jesus and not be excited about the ability to speak with their Lord and Savior. It is perhaps the second biggest thing about being a Christian - right after that whole forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God thing. So why do so few people pray? Oh, we all spend a little time in prayer: bless this food, help the car start, let me pas...

What did the Beatles know about loneliness? Everywhere they went, people flooded from all over just to get the chance to be near them. But their hit song "All the Lonely People" shows that they understood loneliness. They knew what it meant to long something more, to be noticed, to be needed, and yet to spend day after day doing the same, unfulfilling thing. Chances are that even in the biggest crowd imaginable...there are lonely people. I have been there. Surrounded by hundreds of people, focused on my assigned tasks, doing my best to be unnoticed...only wishing that I wasn't so lonely. If I have felt that way, lonely in spite of serving God in a crowded church, I can only believe that millions of others walk around daily just wishing that someone would care about them. As a follower of Jesus, I have been charged with the task of engaging people around me. I admit that I don't always do that. Often when I am in the public arena I am more like a hunter in t...

I joined the Paper.li community and started my own online paper. Since I love to scan through articles, blogs, tweets, and Facebook posts by some of the top leaders and pastors around the world, I find that this is a very helpful tool to consolidate the feeding frenzy of information into one localized place. There are some limitations using the basic account. I do not have total control over what material is posted, the order of importance, the subjects chosen, etc. They do offer more control for a fee. Come check out my paper: Ride the Wave . Let me know what you think and if there is a person or company that I need to include in my content.