In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Everything that exists was created through Him, and nothing that got created was made without Him. The Word became flesh, and lived with us. (John 1:1,3,&14a) First, the Word was just a word. Father used the Word to create everything that got created. Then, […]
Many movies that become popular start with the person who later becomes the hero being unpopular, wimpy, nerdy, but passionate. Passion at its root meaning speaks of pain. Their passion is both in their ideals, which they are not able to attain because they are not powerful enough, and in their rejection as outcasts by the popular and handsome and […]
When Moses left the presence of Yahweh by leaving the tent of meeting, he terrorized people he encountered by glowing. It became such a problem that he started putting a veil over his face so they couldn’t see the glow. Moses met with his God face to face in the tent. When we meet with Him, our hope of glory […]
Paul, while lamenting about his unconverted behavior in Romans 7, stated twice, “It is no longer I who do it…” speaking of sin. He was swamped with sin, but he wasn’t sinning. John stated that “If we say, “We have fellowship with Him,” and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. But if we walk […]
He answered them, “I am a Hebrew. I worship Yahweh, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.” Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What is this you’ve done?” For the men knew he was fleeing from the Lord’s presence, because he had told them. So they said to him, […]
If the Spirit of God shows me that someone I know has done something harmful to others or morally wrong, I become responsible for that knowledge. What I do with the knowledge will govern future revelation the Spirit trusts me with. If my response to the sin is to spread the knowledge of it, I will be like Noah’s son […]
We get in trouble. We respond by wanting to see Yahweh’s power. We get in trouble. We respond by wanting to know Yahweh’s ways. One of those is much better than the other…
Your identity can be expressed in two ways: your relationships and your work. My name is not my identity, even if it describes me perfectly. My father and mother, my spouse, my children, my friends; these are part of what makes me uniquely describable. My work is something that only I can leave in the earth as a heritage or […]
Just one thing: live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith of the gospel, not being frightened in any way by your opponents. […]
But everything must be done decently and in order.(1 Corinthians 14:40 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) That sentence has been used by many people in my hearing to try to control the amount of investment that can be made by “folks in the pew” in a meeting. Various invocations of it have produced different rules, like these: • 1 prophetic […]