In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Everything that exists was created through Him, and nothing that got created was made without Him. The Word became flesh, and lived with us. (John 1:1,3,&14a) First, the Word was just a word. Father used the Word to create everything that got created. Then, […]
He answered them, “I am a Hebrew. I worship Yahweh, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.” Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What is this you’ve done?” For the men knew he was fleeing from the Lord’s presence, because he had told them. So they said to him, […]
We get in trouble. We respond by wanting to see Yahweh’s power. We get in trouble. We respond by wanting to know Yahweh’s ways. One of those is much better than the other…
Your identity can be expressed in two ways: your relationships and your work. My name is not my identity, even if it describes me perfectly. My father and mother, my spouse, my children, my friends; these are part of what makes me uniquely describable. My work is something that only I can leave in the earth as a heritage or […]
Just one thing: live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith of the gospel, not being frightened in any way by your opponents. […]
I have come to believe that the hardest working people in the earth are those who have rights and those who have jealousy. When I live in a place where I must judge every event based on whether I have been defrauded or misjudged or offended, I will never find an end to the work I must perform to achieve […]
This phrase is a Persian adage that can be good news or bad. If my leg is healing from a compound fracture, it would be good for me to remind myself that the pain and immobility are only temporary. If I am having a wonderful time with a dear friend, it would be sad for me to remind myself that […]
The warfare over your life is bigger than you think. The attacks on your health, your property, your relationships, your rest, and all the rest, are allowed in your life so that you have opportunities to have increase in the process of Christ being formed in you. That important purpose needs to have faith applied to it so that it […]
Does the world no longer need to be turned upside down (Acts 17:1-7)? If it does, what are we missing about the strategy or the structure or the power that caused the first believers in Jesus to be accused of having done that? What could we change about our individual lives or our corporate intentions that would improve our abilities […]
We humans think that we only need two things to be noble: the knowledge of how to master the mysteries of life and make them obey us; the knowledge of how to master our identities and make them produce purpose in life. The one thing we need above both of those pursuits is knowing the One Who wrote the mysteries […]