Cold bloodA lizard is very susceptible to the influences of its environment. If the temperature around it is hot, it can move faster than I can watch. If the temperature is cold, it slows down, and at a certain temperature simply can’t move. Warm bloodMammals have body temperature controls that enable them to cool off if their environment becomes hot, […]
Love through me, Love of God, Make me like Thy clear airThrough which unhindered, Colours passAs though it were not there. Powers of the love of God, Depths of the heart Divine,O Love that faileth not, Break forthAnd flood this world of Thine. Amy Carmichael, Servant of Yahweh and India (1867-1951)
Jesus did not give instructions about church planting or evangelism or outreach ministries or fund raising techniques. He taught His disciples about His Kingdom. In Matthew’s record of Jesus giving what we usually call “the great commission,” Jesus predicated the commission on the fact that He had been given all authority in Heaven and on the earth, not that He […]
If we are only looking around for answers, we should be able to find someone who has one or more. If we are only looking around for someone to fix our problems, we should be able to find someone who can do that. Maybe for a fee, maybe free. If we are looking for wisdom, we find much more than […]
In Matthew 24, when Jesus was asked about the “end of the age,” He answered with descriptions of tribulation, and told them that the one who endured to the end would be saved. Then He said that the gospel of the Kingdom would be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end […]
God is faithful; by Him you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction. For it has […]
When we get our strength right, it is because we are finding His strength in our weaknesses. The fruit of His Spirit is strength to us. As Nehemiah told his helpers, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,that He was buried,that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time,most of whom remain to the present, […]
Paul was in prison when he wrote letters to the congregations in Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae and to a believer named Philemon. Do not worry about anything but giving up having the power to cut you off from the purpose that Yahweh has commanded over your life. And do not give up.
What is the right way to evangelize people? Whom should we be evangelizing? Those are not the same kind of questions as “What is the best way to propagate camelias, or the best way to raise tomatoes, or the best way to farm crawdads?” Questions about the best way to evangelize are as broad and multifaceted as questions about the […]