One of the tests by which the US Navy determines who will be accepted as a SEAL is to create stress on the subjects by causing them to function with unknown variables, such as time, distance, and other forms in which endurance is required. For each of us, whether we are holding a rope, holding our breath, hoping for help, […]
Muslims mock us for presuming to call the Most High God our Father. Allah is too perfect and great to have any offspring. Yet, that is exactly the way Jesus taught us to address His Father. Paul even added that we have received by the Spirit of God the liberty to call Him “Abba,” which might be well translated into […]
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. (Matthew 6:33 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) Yesterday my hope was to charge you with considering what the ideas “seeking His Kingdom,” and “seeking His Righteousness,” mean. Definitions for Kingdom and righteousness vary widely. I suggest that His Kingdom exists in […]
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. (Matthew 6:33 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) That sentence contains 5 ideas: seeking His Kingdom; seeking His Righteousness; doing those things before doing other things; you need things; they will be provided. It is in the context of instruction regarding things […]
The ideas that apostles stopped being needed after the first century, and that there were only 13 of them, and that the ministry frequently called “missionary” is the current ministry of apostles are mistakes that have caused much of the lack of influence the people of God have in the earth. Paul wrote to the believers in Ephesus that people […]
And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, ‘Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them — to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with […]
Your enemy said, “I will pursue; I will overtake; I will divide the spoil. My desire will be satisfied at their expense; I will draw my sword, my hands will destroy them.” But Yahweh blew with His breath, and the waters covered your enemies. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. Your God prepared a way to safety and […]
Now I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock […]
When things in our lives are best, we are balanced between the dynamic of simply being our selves, bearing fruit that is appropriate for our identities as if we are a plant that should bear apples or flowers, and the dynamic of being prepared, alert, and unfailing in our devotion to our King. A balance between working and not working. […]
When things in our lives are best, we are balanced between the dynamic of simply being our selves, bearing fruit that is appropriate for our identities as if we are a plant that should bear apples or flowers, and the dynamic of being prepared, alert, and unfailing in our devotion to our King. A balance between working and not working. […]