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Dear Visionary Leader: I write today about How To Turn The Rat Race Into A Spiritual Pilgrimage. There are three insights that I want to provide about what we call “the daily grind.” In Ephesians 6:5, we read, “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.” The closest thing that we would have to that is, be obedient to our boss or superintendent. To your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. You’re to obey your boss as if he were Jesus. You say, “I…

Dear Visionary Leader: I want you to imagine a man who buys an automobile. He’s never owned an automobile before and he doesn’t truly understand an automobile. He saves enough money to buy a brand new automobile. He shows the car off to his friends. He shows them the beautiful paint job. He shows them the soft upholstery. He has them sit in there and listen to the stereo and to Sirius Xm. He shows them all the amenities of this automobile. Yet, there’s one thing he doesn’t understand about it: He doesn’t understand that it has an engine in it. So, everywhere he goes, he has to push the car. Now,…

Dear Visionary Leader: We are living in a time of plagues, promises and the Passover. Just before us is, “Good Friday” and Resurrection Sunday. In Hebrews 11:27-29, we read: “By faith, Moses, when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. Through faith…

Dear Visionary Leader: Everyone does not have to get married. It is not God’s plan for everyone to be married. God has talks about the sanctity of the single life just as well as he talks about the marvels and the wonder of the married life. Aldus Huxley in Brave New World, suggested that before long, marriage licenses may be sold like dog licenses, good for twelve months with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. Without divine intervention and some common sense, this is the kind of world that we’re moving into. Jeremy Taylor said, “A good mate,” he’s talking about your wife, mister,…

Dear Visionary Leader: In Ephesians chapter 5, verse 17, the Bible says, “Wherefore, be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17). We’re living in perilous times and there are many problems that confront us. We are facing the threatening clouds of war in the Middle East. We are facing a world in which morals are descending at an alarming and increasing rate. We are facing school systems that are infiltrated and injected with atheism. We are facing countless pulpits with contaminated men who do not believe, any longer, the miraculous in the Scripture. Church rolls are filled with men and women who have never repented…

There are five markers for intimacy with God in the Song of Solomon: An Intoxicating Passion – 1:1-2. A Place of Prayer – 1:4. A Daily Appointment/Rendezvous With God – 1:7. Time at the Table – 1:12. Unhurried Seasons in the House of Wine – 2:4. Our time with God is to marked by passion! Micah, Saul’s daughter, and David’s first wife, despised David, for His passion for God. When the Ark was returned to Jerusalem, and she saw David wildly dancing in the street before the Ark – she despised him and bore no children. Hannah, on the other hand, was barren. Before the Ark at the Tabernacle, she…

Dear Visionary Leader: Thousands of years ago, a wise man said this: “Look well to this one day, for it and it alone is life. Yesterday is only a dream, and tomorrow is but a vision, yet each day lived well makes yesterday a dream of happiness and tomorrow a vision of hope.” The Bible says, in verse 15, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time” (Ephesians 5:15). Just as we need an alarm clock to get us up in the morning, we at times need our Lord to wake us up! God has provided for you an opportunity. You see, it is God who is…

Dear Visionary Leader: Each year, many of us watch the college bowl games. One of the most memorable bowl games took place some years ago-it was the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The University of California was playing Georgia Tech. At that time, both schools were undefeated. It was late in the second quarter, Tech had the ball, they were pressing hard on the 33- yard-line, when a man named Thomason was hit. The center for the University of California scooped up the ball, spun around, and began to run with it. The crowd started to cheer. He took this fumble and headed toward the goal. His eyes were watching-peripheral vision-he’s moving to…

Dear Visionary Leader: I can truly say that I have invested my life in seeking to see lost people reconciled to God and for the Church to build bridges instead of fences between its leaders. We so often want ourselves to be forgiven before the Lord, but forget that real forgiveness is demonstrated by how we treat our brothers and sisters. It is my opinion that real revival is not just getting the roof off and getting right with God. Real revival is getting the walls down and getting right with one another. Many years ago, Dr. Bill Bright and I wrote a book entitled, Beyond All Limits: The Synergistic Church For…

Dear Visionary Leader: There are two problems that do great psychological, emotional, and spiritual damage to anyone: One is guilt, and the other is bitterness. Guilt imprisons us; bitterness poisons us. Forgiveness is the answer both to bitterness and to guilt. Guilt is the result of something we have done wrong; bitterness is our reaction to someone else’s wrong, or our perception that someone else has wronged us. They both have us in a prison, and it is forgiveness that sets the prisoner free from guilt or from bitterness. God’s forgiveness of us sets us free from the prison of guilt, and our forgiveness of others sets us free from the prison…