Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

Today as I was reading the scriptures I came upon a particular text found in Jeremiah 15:16: Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. The verse speaks of Jeremiah [...]

One of the least likely men to attend the Itinerant Evangelists’ Conference in Amsterdam sponsored by the Billy Graham Association was a Masai Warrior named Joseph. But his story won him a hearing with Dr. Graham himself. The story is told by Michael Card: One day Joseph, who was walking along one of these hot, [...]

When reading the text of Romans this week in 10:15: How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the FEET of those who bring good news of Good things!” I recalled a story of the feet of a missionary in India. I discovered this delightful testimony in John [...]

Charles Wesley gives us an example of how one might obey Hebrews 13:13 and go “outside the camp” and bear the abuse he endured. On July 18, 1738, two months after his conversion, Charles Wesley did an amazing thing. He had spent the week witnessing to inmates at the Newgate prison with a friend named [...]

This past sunday morning I had the oppurtunity to preach on “The Brotherhood of the Believers”. Jesus said to his disciples that by there love for one another this is how they would know that they were from Him. This relationship between the men, women, and children of the church, is a special and even eternal bond [...]

Starting today for the next 40 days, I and 4 of my brothers in Christ are participating in a study through David Nasser‘s book “A Call To DIE: A 40 Day Journey of Fasting from the World & Feasting on God”. This book challenges us to fast from the pleasures of this world for 40 [...]

Greetings everyone I have been absent from the blogosphere for awhile due the outstanding blessing that my Lord has bestowed me with, my wife Monica Fabiola Ruiz. She has been my best friend, my girl, my love, my partner in crime an now she is Mrs. Castillo. Well we just got back from honeymooning on the [...]

Scripture is full of the voices of prophets who convicted, irritated, edified, exhorted, chastised, instructed, encouraged, and proclaimed the Truth. Many followed these prophets; many hated them; some dismissed them; others laughed at them; still others wanted them silenced. The same could be said of Mike Yaconelli the cofounder of Youth Specialities.   Like the prophets [...]

Vision is important when setting out to accomplish any task. This is even more crucial when it pertains to the ministry we are called to fulfill for our Lord Jesus. As scripture says in Proverbs 29:18: “Where there is no vision the people will perish…” The vision for ministry must come from the Lord for his [...]

This Sunday night at my home church of New Life Baptist Church we celebrated the recent graduation of our seniors from high school and college. We had a graduates night service to honor them and there families most of all, the God who aids them in there endeavors. My prayer for them was for them [...]