When we use professional designs to grow tribes, we end up with orphanages: a couple of professional parents and a crowd of children who have no parents. When we instead allow the supernatural design built into humanity, boys and girls fall in love and become parents of boys and girls who fall in love and become parents of boys and […]
When Jesus gave a command to people around Him, or when He gives us a command, either by speaking it to us by His Spirit, or giving life to a Scripture to us by His Spirit, He is inviting us to live by His word. His instruction to be Holy is an invitation to Holiness. His direction to follow Him […]
Suppose we gathered with many leaders in our city: leaders of various versions of Christianity, of Muslims, false religions like Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and unbelievers. Suppose that we each took our turn sharing our lives with each other. Not our theologies, not our doctrines, but what we have experienced, and thereby, what we have verified from our beliefs and […]
100 years ago it was 1919. 50 years ago it was 1969. The technologies, the music, the transportation, the styles of news propagation shifted from 1919 to 1969 in unimaginable ways. The changes since 1969 have been much more vast than the differences between 1919 and 1969. 10 years from now may show as great a shift as the last […]
The lights go out – he says to her, “Honey, did you pay the light bill?” She says to him, “Yes, I remember paying for that.” The accuser brings an accusation before the Righteous Judge regarding your failure. The Judge replies, “Yes, I remember paying for that.” What then are we to say about these things? If God is for […]
Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord—you serve the Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:24 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©) We will be brought to justice one Day regarding our work in the garden of Yahweh that we call Earth. […]
Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ. For in Him the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily, and you have been filled by Him, who is the head over every ruler and authority. In Him you […]
If I take up the belief that 2 + 2 = 5, any other idea that I apply that misbelief to will be wrong, as well. If I am convinced that I can be carnally minded, and still have entrance now or inheritance later in the Kingdom of Heaven, I will be sternly convinced of the truth when it is […]
The morning that I became a believer, I woke up in a condition and mindset that was pretty open to any possibility regarding what the truth might be regarding the source of power and control that had created and continued to manage the universe. I had been in that condition for a while. I was 22, and since I had […]
This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent — Jesus Christ. (John 17:3 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©) Is it really that simple? Is it knowing Jesus and our Father? Saved, born-again, we have so many rules and codes and conditions that we use to separate the “us” from […]