Give your God some glory by asking for astonishingly great things in prayer! Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think—according to the power that works in you — to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21 Holman Christian […]
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21 English Standard Version ©®) Not taking responsibility for the power and authority and righteousness that are parts of our identities when we become born again and then begin to mature is like […]
It has always seemed strange to me that Yahweh asked Moses (Exodus 14:15) “Why are you crying out to Me?” Crying out to the Source of my Strength and Salvation and Life always seems like the right thing to do, heh? How much of what we ask Jesus to do for us in our lives is actually stuff He is […]
Why did Jesus teach in parables? Why are some of them still unexplained? When is the last time you asked Him to explain one? Every time His disciples asked Him to explain one, He did…
If I give you five pounds of platinum, you can verify the weight of it. You cannot verify the value of it, though. You could verify that someone is willing to trade a certain amount of some other material for it, but someone else would offer a different amount of the same material for it, because its value is different […]
Wikipedia, the modern displacer of almost all encyclopedias, includes this statement in its definition of “religion:” “…there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.” No wonder I have felt so much like it was not a problem to have a different definition for the word “religion” from almost everyone. It is as vague and multi-identitied as “world […]
If my Bible study is not making me know Jesus better, and giving me help toward being more like Him, instead of just giving me more history or more information, even about Him, it might be a poor investment of time.
Luke recorded a message from some messengers from Heaven (2:14) that sounded like, “Glory to God in the highest!” The “highest” is a place, not a volume level… And like, “And on earth, peace and good will to all of humanity!” The announcement of the presence of Yeshua (“Salvation of Yah”) in the earth included the fact that He had […]
Today, just a simple quote from one of my heroes, E. Stanley Jones: “It doesn’t matter how much you’ve got; it matters how much God’s got of you.”
Professional theologians would have us believe that paradigm is the proper way to perceive spirituality and the rest of life as the spirit is manifest in the earthly place: this is right, and that is wrong. Either this or that, then is the choice. I am convinced that Jesus prefers a paradox: this is right, but so is that, and […]