discipleship, Battle, Sonship
jay heck
Bug Eyes and Butt Bubbles

8 days ago this grouper was safe on the ocean floor. After years of getting fat he fell prey to a crafty hunter. Once I hooked him, I reeled him up 1000'. The further I pulled him away from home…

Bug Eyes and Butt Bubbles
discipleship, Battle, Sonship
jay heck
Talk to Yourself, but Don't Listen to Yourself.

Some might suggest 2021 has not gotten off to a great start. And I might agree. I'm not alone I don't think. A popular meme right now commiserates "'I'd like to cancel my subscription to 2021... the 7-day trial is enough".

In any case we have an invitation to continue learning what we were invited to learn last year - that hope in anything but God is foolish. For our future preservation in tough circumstances we simply must learn to find our souls some better footing than to place our hope in a year, a person, a nation or an earthly outcome.

Talk to Yourself, but Don't Listen to Yourself.
jay heck
Hear God Speak Into Your 2021

Last new years my friend Cayce Harris emailed me a document that walked me through questions to ask Jesus.
It was a rescue, helping me receive some interpretation from God regarding the past year and some counsel on the upcoming year. Here it is for you.

Hear God Speak Into Your 2021
jay heck
Our Finest Hour?

"That could never happen. This is the U.S.A." -said almost everyone just a few months ago.

The world is getting its eyes opened. Nation by nation, kingdom by kingdom, the powers of evil have been working quite secretly to secure power and bring the world into chaos and darkness. It's like in the great movies, only it's real.

Can we handle this much reality?
Like our heroes, could this be our finest hour?

Our Finest Hour?

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The Opportunity of Pain [Blog]

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The Opportunity of Pain [Blog]

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” -C.S. Lewis

How appropriate an observation from Lewis for this day and hour. Unquestionably our world is in pain, but is it yet ready to face the hard truth?
Many are certainly ready, and we are on duty to be God's signposts to help bring the rest of the family home. This is our time to be about the Father's business and ready for the Master's return. But are we ready?

Some of us are and some of us are not.

Some parts of us are, and some parts are not.

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USING THE F WORD MORE

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USING THE F WORD MORE

I recently read a quote from a book by John Ortberg defining leadership as "... the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand."   In light of the last several years of my own personal journey, this feels like the most vivid and realistic picture of leadership I have heard yet. After a friendship of many years someone very close to me, both personally and professionally, became disappointed with me.  Disappointment grew to resentment and on to abandonment. The way he left was both painful and public.  I can't recall a time in my life when the voices of failure and disappointment have been so loud or felt more true.

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