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 […]
What should we learn from what Jesus told the Sadducees in what we call Matthew 22:29? He said that they didn’t know the Scriptures and they didn’t know the power of God. The Sadducees had the Scriptures memorized, but Jesus said that they didn’t know the Scriptures. Their religious experiences and teachers had trained them that anything someone reported to […]
Every instruction from Yahweh to any particular person as recorded in Scripture is not necessarily a command to you. If that were true, you would need to both always carry a sword with you and never carry a sword with you. Everyone who became a follower of Jesus would need to wait in Jerusalem until Pentecost. Everyone would need to […]
It is easy to tell when someone has spent too much time listening to the Weather Channel or to CNN or Fox. They are overflowing with bad news. It is also easy to tell when someone has spent enough time reading or listening to the Scriptures. They are overflowing with faith and life and hope. If you were the guy […]
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 […]
Do you want to succeed at conquering the Goliaths in your life? Are you successfully avoiding the lions and bears you must conquer so that they prepare you to meet Goliath and prevail? I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the […]
If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. Consider this chapter from James in light of the ideas that on one hand, we cannot control ourselves, and on the other hand, the Holy Spirit can control ourselves, because self-control is one of the fruit of […]
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. […]
Your circumstances to not form who you are. How you respond to your circumstances is what creates who you become. Leaders are people who at some point have made courageous decisions, and have not given up on the targets of those choices. It is easy to pick leaders out. They are going somewhere. Who is the person who fears the […]
I had two interesting encounters this week. One was with a Marxist, who, between racist insults and questions he jabbed me with but refused to listen to my answers to, told me that he has a god-given ability in himself to know what is right in every situation. He added that anyone who disagreed with what he could perceive to […]