“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others. Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel! “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside […]
Category Archives: Ekklesia
Contradicting the Scriptures
Suppose someone became a believer in Jesus, and read the New Testament. Then, suppose s/he met me. Would I be a contradiction to what had been read, or a manifestation of it? Holy Spirit of Jesus, make us to be the realization of what you made to be done and then written and preserved in the Book. Cause people who have not yet read the Book to know what it […]
Body Parts You Need
For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. So the body is not one part but many. If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a […]
Invocations / Vocations
We never have to invite Jesus to our meetings. When we are in the right meetings, on the right missions, in the right relationships, we are there because He invited us. We are joining Him. It is appropriate to acknowledge Him in all our ways, though. It is always proper to welcome Him and to thank Him for welcoming you. If you consider His presence all through your day, it […]
Being Leaders
The best leaders I have seen became leaders by discovering their true identities and walking in them. Someone who has gained from the Spirit of Jesus who He says they are and who is determined to walk in that identity will stand out among the fearful, the doubtful, the hateful and the proud. Their light and their manifestations of Life will be impossible to ignore. They will become sought out […]
Learning New Stuff
When a messenger from Yahweh spoke to Cornelius (Acts 10:1-8), there is no indication that he had experienced anything like it previously. Still, he received and obeyed the instructions he was given by the angel, sending to Joppa for Peter to come to his home. As part of the same event being set up, Peter saw a vision of a sheet being lowered from heaven, filled with every kind of […]
Locking Up Believers
Once I had a friend (who was actually a pastor – not just employed as one) who led a congregation I was related to. He said more than once of several people who were in his congregation who got saved and filled by the Spirit of the Lord that he wished he could lock them up for a couple of years so they would not scare the sheep so much. […]
Learning How Things Work
In 1738, Daniel Bernoulli published a book – Hydrodynamica. It stated theories from his studies of fluids and gasses. Some of the ideas he presented regarding liquid flow and the dynamics of pressure caused by the effects of the shapes and sizes of pipes were later used by inventors to understand and subsequently harness the power of air flow to cause human flight machines to work. Understanding how things work […]
Living in Bethany
What are the most valuable benefits you have received in meetings of believers? Imagine having those benefits available at family gatherings. Or imagine inviting people to your home for a meal or party and having those things happen. Imagine who you could invite to an event like that. They would not have to be members of the congregation where your baptism record is maintained. They could be coworkers or neighbors […]
From Egypt to Palestine
Where was the failure in the picture of the descendants of Israel being brought from lives of slavery in Egypt to being laid in sandy graves on the trip to Palestine? Should Moses have done a better job communicating the vision Yahweh had for His People? Should the people have spent more time studying the Scriptures? Can’t be that – there were no Scriptures. Should the people have been hungrier […]