Storms are coming. What they will look like, what damage they will be in position to do, how the neighbors will fare, whether they will strike at night or midday, and a hundred other questions are not to be answered until they strike. There are many houses and store fronts that have 5 year old duct tape on them – […]
Are you more likely to forward a text or an email that is short and funny, or one that is long and life-imparting? Whatever your answer to that is, why is it the case? What do the people in your Contacts list need? Your answer should not be influenced by how may diplomas or licenses you have. Or don’t. If […]
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.(Hebrews 11:6 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®) But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23 […]
There is little wonder that the religions that teach reincarnation also have as their only pitiful hope that one day they will simply cease to exist. Looping around and around, hoping for improved circumstances and lives, the best life they can hope for is to melt into the universal unconsciousness, because life is misery, so to be free from misery, […]
Many people have unknowingly taken church membership as a pitiful substitute for the process of having died, been born of Yahweh into His family, and thereby having become candidates for being able to see the Kingdom of Heaven unfold around them as He works in, around and through them to accomplish His will in the earth. And when you were […]
On days, being heard is not nearly as important as hearing is. Be quick to hear, and slow to speak (James 1:19). How can they believe, if they have not heard, though? (Romans 10:17) When our conversations include more listening than talking, we might be much more effective with the little that we say, because we hear people’s fears or […]
We need to have instruction from the Spirit of God if we expect to get anything in life right. That is righteousness – doing things according to the will of the Lord. We must know what needs to be done. We can’t just do what seemed to work last time – we need fresh revelation about what the Lord is […]
Suppose we gathered with many leaders in our city: leaders of various versions of Christianity, of Muslims, false religions like Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and unbelievers. Suppose that we each took our turn sharing our lives with each other. Not our theologies, not our doctrines, but what we have experienced, and thereby, what we have verified from our beliefs and […]
When Constantine gathered people he perceived to be the leaders of Christianity together in Nicaea in the year 325, part of what he caused to occur was an entitlement of “ecumene” over the church. This description means literally “the whole inhabited world.” It is as much a mistake as calling the church of Rome “catholic,” which means literally “the universal” […]
Luke 10:20 “… don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Please read the first 24 verses of the 10th chapter of Luke. Read it with no thought about what it might be saying about church. Meditate on every phrase to extract what it might be saying about the Kingdom. That […]