Power to Disciple Nations

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.(1 John 5:19 HCSB ©®) One reason we could say that the whole world is still under the sway of the evil one is that we have spent centuries converting people with the gospel of the fear of hell rather than the […]

The Death Was Mine

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: if One died for all, then all died. And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.(2 Corinthians 5:14-15 HCSB ©®) Jesus died my death. That means that my death has […]

THE Path to Awesomeness

The Spirit of Jesus expects us to look to Him for wisdom and strength and direction and the ability to manifest what Paul called His fruit. He wants to lead us all the time. If we are just thinking of being led by Him when we have a tough situation that we can’t figure out without Him, we are likely […]

Threatened for Bearing Truth

The day I encountered Jesus and became a follower of His, I surrendered to Him as a King and as a Savior. The poor chump who was the “minister” of the congregation whose building Jesus met me in thought it was funny the next Sunday when I told him that I had gotten saved the week before. He thought everybody […]

Fearing Hell is Poor Motivation

Contemporary Roman Mythology has influenced many generations directly and through the daughters of the church of Rome with great fear of hell. Even after being born of Yahweh, victims continue to fear the lake of fire up to their last breath. Popes created the fear factor to keep their subjects dependent on them for salvation. You need one of their […]

Starting or Finishing

If you have some sense of what your God has called you to be and to do in the earth, you are farther along than perhaps 8 out of 10 believers. Still, to know is not to be nor to do. The most important thing you can do is to start the preparation and then the work. The second most […]

Treated Like Servants

We are servants of the King of Heaven and Earth. Religion typically teaches that a minister is in charge, but minister is a foreign word for servant. On good days, we can step into the place of being a servant. We can even enjoy serving Jesus by serving the least of His people at times. A good test of our […]

Messing With the Crowd

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea. One of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at His feet and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her […]

Two Similar Commands

He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.(Matthew 22:37-39 HCSB ©®) Why did Jesus say that loving your neighbor as you love yourself is a command that is […]

Sleep and Comfort

Effective leaders offer discouraged people strength, not comfort. Most people want comfort, not strength. Believers in China or Cuba or Iraq or Sudan today need strength more than comfort. They need both, but if they have to choose, they clearly need strength. We are no less at war, but our war is less visible and our culture offers the pretense […]