Articles by Dave Alei

I saw a post on Facebook that was emotional, moving, and very inspirational.  It included a video of a condor that was being released into the wild.  The video in the post now has over 19 million views and says the bird had lived for years in a zoo.  It was unclear as to why it was in the zoo, but the release back into the environment in which it had been created to live was awe-inspiring.

Much of the emphasis in the modern church world has to do with avoiding the snares of the world, and well it should be! If we love the world, or the things of the world, we simply cannot serve Jesus.

I've been thinking a lot about humility lately. God told us that He would heal our land if His people would do four things: humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways (2 Chronicles 7:14).

I recently heard a message by a wonderful Bible teacher, a very humble man who I respect immensely. He was teaching on the purpose for our lives, and laid his foundation with two primary principles from the Scriptures;

I've recently been thinking a lot about prayer. As is probably true for most of us, I desire to see a miraculous, supernatural move of God that surpasses "all that we could ask or think..." (Ephesians 3:20).

I once ran into a guy I hadn't seen in a while, a pastor of a prison outreach in the community where I lived at the time. He is a man that I didn't know very well, but we'd met on a couple occasions and we had once shared an evening meal together at his...

All of us want to feel as though we belong. And all of us identify ourselves with a number of different groups that characterize the kind of person we perceive ourselves to be. The question is, to which groups do you belong?

While we were living in Sonora, Mexico, I had an experience that illustrates one of the most discouraging things I encounter throughout the Body of Christ in the western world today.