I Can’t, But He Can

For some, that idea is frightening. Many of us, myself included, are professional and incredibly practiced “control-freaks.” The idea of handing anything over to anyone else, including our most capable and willing God, makes us squirm and quake in our boots. “What if He won’t… or worse, what if He can’t help me… then what?”

I came up against this myself during the Great Recession when I was steeped “neck-deep” in my own “ableness.” You see, I had been practicing the “How can I” on steroids…

Grace is a $100 Bill

It may seem strange for me to equate grace with money. You may find it a little bit blasphemous, but let me tell you a story of something that happened to me over 10 years ago…

The Great Recession had just swept through the United States and very few people were untouched by its insatiable and greedy presence. My own real estate and hard money businesses had been eaten alive and after letting go over 80 percent of my workforce, closing down the office, and moving everything to the basement of a house I could no longer afford, it was difficult to see God’s grace.

Jaclyn and I had three small children, all under the age of three, our accounts had been wiped out, all my properties, which had been leveraged to the hilt, were in foreclosure, and the loans I had made to other investors were in default. I had painted myself into a corner and felt the room closing in on me.

It was then that God urged…

Not Succeeding? Could Be an Alignment Problem

One night after working late at the office, I took the corner out of the parking lot a little too fast and slammed my Jeep into a snowbank. Everyone in the car was fine, thanks be to God, but afterward, although I was still able to drive home, the alignment of the Jeep was extremely […]

What Do You Want

What is it that you want? I ask because most of us, myself included, have a series of wants that we think, should they come true, will improve our lives significantly. “If only I had (fill in the blank), I would be ___ (successful, happy, content, or attractive). The Christian author, Max Lucado, describes this […]