Constructive Spiritual Tension
This morning, I sensed the source of tension often present in my decision making process as a political leader. I was reading a...
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Brandon Billings
Nov 24, 20124 min read
Generational Shifts
For some days now, I have been reflecting on what may be four to five distinctive dimensional changes witnessed in my lifetime of...
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Brandon Billings
Nov 8, 20123 min read
Theocracy and Democracy
If one Goggles theocracy, they will find the following definition: “A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a...
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Brandon Billings
Oct 6, 20123 min read
Politics and Lost Donkeys
Thought this might catch the reader’s eye, especially coming from an elected official! Actually, I am referencing the dynamic which...
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Brandon Billings
Sep 23, 20122 min read
Houston, We Have a Problem
“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our...
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Brandon Billings
Aug 28, 20122 min read
The Bronze Serpent
I continue to struggle with what I see happening across our land, economically, politically and yes, spiritually. I am of the...
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Brandon Billings
Jul 5, 20125 min read
The God Particle
This entry, lengthy but by no means “tongue in cheek” relates to the recent discovery of the elusive subatomic particle, to which all...
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Brandon Billings
Jun 27, 20123 min read
Transaction or Transformation?
This morning as I picked up the letter from my old friend John, I John, I had not read two verses into this lover’s plea, until I was...
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Brandon Billings
Apr 24, 20122 min read
Heightened Awareness
Sometimes I believe that the reason I am in politics is more to observe people than to serve them, though the latter is my calling. The...
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Brandon Billings
Apr 1, 20122 min read
Can I get a Witness!
I have not been able to get past a scripture read earlier in the week, Luke 20:20…in fact now another thought comes to mind as I write:...
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Brandon Billings
Mar 25, 20123 min read
Embrace the Cross
These were the words I heard in my spirit a couple weeks ago, as I struggled with why I would give more of my time and risk more of my...
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Brandon Billings
Feb 16, 20123 min read
The Magnificent Christ
I continue to be amazed at how the scriptures read so differently each time I pass through the pages of my Bible. The text never changes...
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Brandon Billings
Feb 14, 20123 min read
The Sermon on the Mount
This morning my devotional reading has carried me into Matthew, arriving at the Beatitudes. However, of more interest to me than the...
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Brandon Billings
Feb 4, 20122 min read
Parallels
I sit here this a.m. reflecting on almost 40 years of service to the church and to my community. Grateful for the scores of lives...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 29, 20114 min read
Pearls of Great Price
For several days now I have been pondering where our culture is headed, one driven by pluralism, political correctness and attempts to...
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Brandon Billings
Dec 14, 20113 min read
The Morning after Planet Earth
This strange title came to me as I opened my heart to write this a.m. I look forward to my early morning, post devotional processing;...
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Brandon Billings
Oct 18, 20114 min read
The Sacrifice for Our Sins
As I indicated in one of my last entries, I feel something of a shift has occurred in terms of what God is doing on the Earth. My...
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Brandon Billings
Jul 24, 20112 min read
American Christianity
As I sit this morning, in one of the many places of worship in our city, thinking of all the variety of churches on almost every corner...
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Brandon Billings
Jul 16, 20112 min read
An Axiom Misappropriated
This morning as I did my daily reading of Oswald Chambers, it dawned on me what the American pulpit has done to the familiar mandate of...
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Brandon Billings
Feb 13, 20114 min read
The Age of the Gentiles
All my life, I have heard ministers both defend Israel, and declare that the time in which we live, beginning with the ascension of...
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