On days when it seems good to us to accuse someone of failure or to expose their weaknesses, it is more good when we have processed the information and the possible responses through the fruit of the Spirit of Jesus. Asking questions, like, “Is my assessment of the situation from the perspective of the throne of grace, where I find […]
How dangerous it would be if Jesus, though He is the only Way to the Father, chose to draw one to Himself through a child offering a child-filtered version of what it takes to be saved, and to draw another by learning that there are “Four Spiritual Laws,” as Campus Crusade would say, and another by a dream of a […]
Saul went to the Jewish national leadership in Jerusalem to get letters of authority to persecute followers of “the Way” in Damascus. When he arrived in Damascus, he still had the authority to imprison and kill believers. The Spirit of Jesus spoke to one of the people Saul came to town to persecute and instructed him to heal Saul of […]
Our God is an All-Consuming-Fire. Everything but Him is of Him, through Him, and for Him. While we wait through the fire of threats of rejection, accusation, loss, fear, hard work, abandonment, and every other evil the world can empower against us, we are waiting for the fire that can empower us against the evil. When the followers of Jesus […]
We don’t usually know when we wake up what Responsibility waits for us in the day. We know the routine – whether we are going to our job or some other typical activity. The R in the Responsibility I am pointing at implies the big stuff – the things that affect generations behind me. On the day Elisha was approached […]
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is what I command you: love one another. But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, […]
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar, about which I tell you in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(Galatians 5:19-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) […]
The days of the week are named after gods and demons, just as the planets are. Yahweh just called them after their numerical order. Constantine worshiped the sun. Under his influence, Yahweh’s declared day of worship (the seventh) was usurped and replaced by the prominence of the Sun god (first day) over Saturn (seventh day). I am hoping it is […]
Jesus has been counted worthy to judge humans because He was willing to die for us. We have been ordained to judge, too: humans and angels. What qualifies us to begin the work? An ekklesia was sometimes called together in Greece or Rome to make a judgment in a matter. James 1 of England wanted to rule over Jesus’ people […]
For many centuries, the mis-influences of kings and popes have created terrible abuses of humanity, including torture and murder, against anyone who questioned the validity of their authority or the accuracy of their theology. Included in the twists of the theology of such ungodly leadership are the extra-Biblical teachings that the supernatural giftings mentioned in the Bible are no longer […]