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 […]
If you seek truth with all your heart, you will find Jesus. If you seek Jesus will all your heart, you will find everything. Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.(Hebrews 11:6 HCSB ©®)
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. […]
If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. Consider this chapter from James in light of the ideas that on one hand, we cannot control ourselves, and on the other hand, the Holy Spirit can control ourselves, because self-control is one of the fruit of […]
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. […]
Your circumstances to not form who you are. How you respond to your circumstances is what creates who you become. Leaders are people who at some point have made courageous decisions, and have not given up on the targets of those choices. It is easy to pick leaders out. They are going somewhere. Who is the person who fears the […]
I had two interesting encounters this week. One was with a Marxist, who, between racist insults and questions he jabbed me with but refused to listen to my answers to, told me that he has a god-given ability in himself to know what is right in every situation. He added that anyone who disagreed with what he could perceive to […]