What should we learn from what Jesus told the Sadducees in what we call Matthew 22:29? He said that they didn’t know the Scriptures and they didn’t know the power of God. The Sadducees had the Scriptures memorized, but Jesus said that they didn’t know the Scriptures. Their religious experiences and teachers had trained them that anything someone reported to […]
For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. So the body is not one part but […]
Daniel asked for both the content and interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and received them (Daniel 2). Jesus told the people who gathered for what we call the sermon on the mount that His Father wanted to bless them with what they sought from Him: “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep […]
Many people are not committed to anything. Most people who are committed to something are simply committed to their own comfort. Some are not even committed enough to their own comfort to make any sacrifices to make the presence of comfort reliable. If I am committed to something, I should have subsequent or subservient commitments: if I want comfort, I […]
I receive more phone calls from people who want advice about how to deal with the bad behavior of annoying people in their lives and from people who worry about being judged harshly by Jesus for their own bad behavior than from people who are asking advice about how to live more closely to Jesus. It will forever be possible […]
Do you want to succeed at conquering the Goliaths in your life? Are you successfully avoiding the lions and bears you must conquer so that they prepare you to meet Goliath and prevail? I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the […]
How much of what Yahweh wants us to have won’t come to us until we ask for it or search for it? “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is […]
Who has set the pattern for how life should be lived that you consider to be “normal,” or “attainable”? How high is the bar of success in that pattern? How much farther than that pattern is it possible to go? Is average good enough for “ordinary” believers, or should all of us be striving for the highest place? What is […]
The church is interested in the church a great deal. The church is not interested in the King or His Kingdom. It does take some interest in the Savior. In some of the bad cases of interest, indulgences and masses and prayers and riches are sold to those who have not heard that salvation is actually the gift of God. […]
We never have to invite Jesus to our meetings. When we are in the right meetings, on the right missions, in the right relationships, we are there because He invited us. We are joining Him. It is appropriate to acknowledge Him in all our ways, though. It is always proper to welcome Him and to thank Him for welcoming you. […]