Our God has designed our minds to value logic and to use it to find our ways and protect ourselves and our families. We use it to imagine things and then to build them. Paul suggested to the Believers in Corinth that they needed to have their logic influenced by the experiences that were recorded about the Israelis who followed Moses out of Egypt: Now I want you to know, […]
Category Archives: Discipleship
Stepping out of the Crowd
Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit […]
Ask The Spirit
Frequently, when I am asked for an opinion by someone who is making a decision, I don’t sense that I have been given the answer. I may still try to sense what is wisdom, but I don’t want to offer an answer that is not clearly from the Spirit without warning. My advice, when I don’t sense I have any answer at all, is “Ask the Spirit.” Examine these two […]
Avoid Perishing Likewise
At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well! Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you […]
Love Your Neighbor
Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment—all are summed up by this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment […]
9 Tithes
What should we be doing in terms of giving to the King’s work and blessing His servants by offering them financial assistance? First, consider that in a Kingdom, everything belongs to the King. If something is in someone else’s possession, it is because the King is entrusting it to them at that time. They are just stewards of it, and He will require of them a return on His investment […]
Just Think About It
It is hard to sleep the night before you expect a big fight or you start a new job or you go on a 3 month vacation or you meet the Prime Minister of Namibia. Your brain won’t stop thinking. Even during the day, your lizard brain (amygdala) will flood you with things that you should worry about. If you listen to it for more than 30 seconds and believe […]
Low Visibility Warning
Part of the daily weather report is the meteorologists’ estimation of atmospheric visibility hindrances. They offer their perspective in miles. Jesus told Nicodemus that a person has to be born a second time before they can see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3). He merely described it as a prerequisite – He didn’t offer it as a guarantee – to be able to see the Kingdom. I can be born […]
Loyal
John (Jonah / Yochanan) had a son named Simon (Shim’on). Jesus gave him a nickname: Rock (Cephas / Peter). Simon’s actions as a follower of Jesus included declarations of his desire to worship Jesus (and Moses, and Elijah: Matthew 17), the fact that Jesus’ Father is Yahweh (Matthew 16) and that he would die before denying Jesus (Matthew 26). Yet, another of his acts was to call curses on himself […]