Path Through The Wilderness, authored by Regeneration’s Northern Virgina Director, Rev. Bob Ragan, offers a fresh approach to help you experience the love, peace and freedom you desire. We want to be loved and to love well. And we each experience competing and conflicting desires, some that move us toward the life we want, and some that point us away from that life. We can also face overwhelming...
God Loves Unique You
What will it take for you to believe? In the 1991 movie, Hook, Robin Williams plays Peter Banning, a successful and busy accountant, with hardly enough time for his wife and children. When they travel to London to visit extended family, Peter’s children, Jack and Maggie, are abducted from their beds the family’s first night there. The police are baffled, with no leads, while Peter’s elderly...
Thief Alive
There were two criminals suffering with Jesus at His death. In our own areas of pain, I think many of us align with the first thief, demanding God relieve suffering on our terms, and ready to turn on Him or from Him when He doesn’t. (Last week, I wrote that Jesus ignored this thief’s demand not because He didn’t care, but because the thief was asking for something Jesus could not, in love, give.)...
Thieves
God knows life hurts sometimes. This is reality in a world that’s fallen. Jesus’ forewarning that “in this life you will have trouble” (John 16:33) was certainly about more than traffic jams and tax increases. It hurts when your marriage isn’t holding together, when you’re single but long to be married, when homosexual desires persist though you’ve prayed they’d change, when you look at porn...
When God Is Silent
One of the most difficult things for me in walking with God is His silence. I want to hear from Him more than I do. I want Him to speak into my loneliness, to reveal how best to parent through this situation, to tell me why He’s allowing this suffering, to assure me it’s going to be okay, to tell me again He loves me. God’s not silent because He doesn’t speak. He does. In a million ways. We know...
Men, We’ve Got To Remember
Men have forgotten who they are. The masses of men regularly viewing porn, sleeping around, losing all resolve at the sight of naked flesh—these reveal that on some deep level man has forgotten. Men, you are meant for more than temptation tells you you are. Jesus did not go through such trouble to leave you gutted and groveling. He came to resurrect in you godly masculine strength—the kind loyal...