Law of the Spirit of Life
Musician Paul Wilbur has the idea that a YouTube video of Stacy Westfall and her horse Whizard’s Baby Doll is an excellent example of the contrast between living life by trying to be good enough to obey …
Category: Discipleship
Expectable Behavior
How do you expect carnal, immature believers and unbelievers to treat you? Should they be nice and generous and forgiving and tolerant and happy to see you? Will they? If you have discovered that you don’t like …
Dread Hurts my Head
I have noticed lately that I am more likely to get headaches when my attitude toward projects or people includes dread. Dread is a soup made from various portions of fear, anger, laziness, unforgiveness, and more. Sometimes …
Awesome Goals
Jesus died to give you the life you are living. What are the goals you have for it? Do you hope to overcome sin? To become free of fear? Are pride, stinginess, offendability the hurdles you hope …
Loveless
You need to be well-informed. You need to be strong in your understanding. You need wisdom. You can do things to increase these in your life. However – if you are knowledgeable and wise and have great …
The Best Skills
The greatest two skills you can develop in life are the ability to make decisions and the ability to follow through with the decisions you make. The greatest way to practice these two skills is under the …
Outside Help Inside
My strength cannot find its source in my self. It has to find strength that is like gravity or light or heat. If my ability to stand or to be settled or be committed is from within …
Strengthening Fear
Action confronts and can overcome fear. Delay acquiesces to and can strengthen fear. So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh, …
Out of Egypt
One of the most powerful hindrances to our ability to hear the Spirit speaking to us and to our strength to thereafter obey what He says is our religious heritage. We are programmed to believe certain religious …
Dead to Sin
My hero E. Stanley Jones once said, “As long as I am alive to God – alive to His suggestions, His urges, His leadings, His love – I am by that very expulsive fact dead to sin. …