Repentance is a change of mind. The results of having our minds changed include changed behavior and changed values and changed futures. We can’t get to New York on the train tracks that lead to Chicago. To change destinations you must change tracks if you’re going by train. John prepared people he baptized by leading them to repentance. They were […]
Tesla experimented with the idea of transferring power without wires. His less difficult work was to show Thomas Edison how much safer and more powerful and less costly alternating current was than direct current. At least it was less difficult for him to do the engineering work of that project. Convincing Edison to change his empire was very difficult. We […]
Some of the wealthiest people have become wealthy by being beggars. Their work is taking “widows’ mites” and promising that their supporters will get money for giving money. Frequently the same people who purchase lottery tickets send money to these hawkers, hoping to win big with God. To untwist some of their quotes of Jesus and Paul, I suggest that […]
In response to a share via another medium of my recent blog “In Christ,” someone responded, “Saying being ‘in the Anointing’ means the same thing, but adds a beautiful dimension.” Being “in the Anointed” and being “in the Anointing” are really very different. One is being in the King, and the other is being influenced by Him. I had wondered […]
Motors are described in several ways. One is by the type of fuel they use to create energy. Electricity, hydrogen, diesel, jet fuel, gasoline are examples. Another category is the method of conversion of the fuel, such as turbine, rotary, internal combustion. The amount of power that is created by motors is usually measured in horsepower. This term was created […]
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 […]