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I love the nation in which I live and was born. I love America. From the rugged oceans of Northern California to the majestic mountains of Montana, from the Freedom Trail in Boston to the battlegrounds of the Civil War. From the Florida Keys to the plains of Iowa to the hill country of Texas. Small town football, inner city soccer camps, baseball little leagues … the blues festivals in Chicago and the food of New Orleans … I love it all. And I love the spirit of this nation, how we come together facing a true crisis. People stop...

Francis Asbury was “The Most Recognized Man in America.”  He changed the world you and I live in today by the power of God and a relentless faith. Yet when he died on March 31, 1816, at the age of 70, he owned little more than a saddle, a few Bibles, and the clothes on his back. Over the rugged roads and hazardous river crossings of a young nation, Asbury traveled over 275,000 miles by horseback and wagon, preaching Jesus Christ. He averaged a sermon a day for 45 years. Under his leadership, more than 300,000 people came to faith....

The tropical heat is brutal in Belize in June. Ray was sweating like crazy as he and a group of men worked on putting the roof on a local church in the Dangriga region of Belize. Working with a group of men from Houston, Ray was a young man who had just come to Christ. It was 2015. Ray was with me, John Bowman, and a team of men from Texas. We were there helping churches in Belize disciple men ... and doing some physical work also. Ray had been a drug dealer, a gangster on the streets of Houston....

Abraham was promised a son. Then he had to wait. Waited for a son to be born to him—the son of promise. Every man looks for a shortcut. And Abraham was a man just like you and me. He was impatient, fearful, listened to bad advice ... wanted a shortcut. Acting on human wisdom, his own impatience, and the fear that he was running out of time, he had a son. Out of synch with God, in the wrong season, and 14 years premature. Sarah offered her maid, Hagar, and Ishmael was born. But, fourteen years later, Sarah birthed Isaac,...

To focus on faith in God is not to deny reality, but to see life in the fullness of God’s reality. Focus brings clear perspective. What captures and holds your attention will ultimately control the direction of your life. Abraham believed in a God who would “speak of those things that are not, as though they are” (Romans 4:17). Abraham did not deny reality. He did not speak of things that are, as though they are not. He spoke of what God can do—the things that are not…yet. Focus on the possibilities. Focus on the future. Focus on what could...