Effective leaders offer discouraged people strength, not comfort. Most people want comfort, not strength. Believers in China or Cuba or Iraq or Sudan today need strength more than comfort. They need both, but if they have to choose, they clearly need strength. We are no less at war, but our war is less visible and our culture offers the pretense […]
Father, please cause Your Kingdom to come here, by causing Your will to be done here just as it is done in Heaven. By instruction from Jesus, that is part of the disciples’ prayer. The launch of the mission to help that prayer be answered was the choosing of 12 initial apostles to colonize the earth with the power, the […]
Peter was hiding while Jesus was paying for my sin (and Peter’s) on the cross. He accepted the invitation of Jesus to stand again in hope and in purpose, though. When I feel that my failures and sins have been too much, when my fears and doubts make me give up, I cannot stay in those defeated places. I don’t […]
There is currently an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States being waged by the same criminals who were successful at the same crime in North Korea, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and other nations. Their tactics include promoting racism (BLM and Critical Race Theory), destroying family-based morality (LGBTQ and the lucrative […]
Cause us to succeed at following this instruction to Your colonists, Lord. Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to […]
A leech needs a host. “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any. Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ And when it arrives, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order. Then off it goes and brings with […]
32 Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and some another, because the assembly [ekklesia G1577] was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. 33 Then some of the crowd [ochlos G3793] gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense […]
As they were listening to this, He went on to tell a parable because He was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away. Therefore He said: “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then return. He called 10 of his slaves, gave them […]
Jesus did not voice any intention of the continuation of temple-based worship or synagogue-centered teaching and government. He did voice His intention of building ekklesia, and expecting it to be a form of government. When He used the word in Matthew 16 and 18, and in the Revelation given to John, the term was used to refer to a group […]
I have not found the phrase “go to heaven” in the Bible. In almost every popular hymn written in the last century and a half, the phrase is there, though. Most believers seem to be focused on getting off work and hitting the couch in spiritual terms. The King of Heaven seems to be focused on having His people draw […]