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Paul made an important distinction for us. He said those outside the Church should not be the object of our judgment. He said, “It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. God...
As a young boy, I walked forward during an invitation at our Baptist church and made a public declaration of my faith. In the ensuing years, I followed the Lord but then fell away in my teens and early 20s. At age 29, I had a supernatural encounter with the Lord in...
Offering the love of God to people who do not yet know that love can take time to reap its intended harvest. Those who have developed patience regarding God’s timing will see results not imagined by those who have not yet committed themselves to the patience required...
A dangerous Christian - dangerous to the works of hell - is one who… refuses to align with other people’s negative expectations. is not led by the established religious or political party line. responds to the Spirit, not to peer pressure. believes the miraculous is...
An audience is not an anointing. Some of the most anointed lives are lived in isolation and suffering. Celebrity and notoriety come and go at the whim of a consumer culture both within society and the Church. Do not chase the affirmation of people thinking...
Clarity and confirmation are coming. A significant marker that will guide you through this last challenging leg of your journey will soon appear. Its presence will pilot you into a new place, one that has remained hidden until this moment of time. God will...
If you are not familiar with the term “stolen valor” a quick YouTube search will reveal in vivid detail what it means. Stolen valor takes place when someone who never served in the military dons a uniform and medals and tries to impersonate a veteran. There is always...
One of the greatest gifts you can leave behind is to be, as far as it is possible with you, at peace with all people. “As far as possible” means we walk as far forward in the process of reconciliation as the will of the other person will allow. We can walk up...
Recently, I spoke at a gathering of social reformers and cultural influencers. My assignment was to unpack the teaching gift from within the five equipping gifts Paul mentioned in Ephesians 4. In my presentation, I shared there are three expressions of a teaching gift...
When I was a kid, I grew up in the Silicon Valley of California before the high tech companies arrived. Our valley was a continuous expanse of fruit orchards. My first real job was at age 9 picking prunes. The ease of picking prunes would depend on how the...
A few decades ago, a local church that believed in the supernatural works of God self-described itself as Full Gospel. The term noted an on-going belief in the supernatural works of God including the function of all the gifts of the Spirit. They did not believe in a...
When John the Baptist was crying out in the wilderness the people of Jerusalem and the surrounding region ventured out to hear his message. In that advancing crowd were people from all spheres of cultural influence. It would not be the innovators of a new product or...
We write and speak a lot about open doors of opportunity. What we don't talk about is the need to pause on the threshold of those open doors to inquire of the Lord to determine if He was the one who opened the door. A life that demands continual forward motion is a...
The soul and the spirit need to remain separate in the formation of our worldview and theology. Only the Word of God can make the separating cut revealing the distinction between these two components of our life. Theologies and doctrines formed by human logic in the...
The older I become and the closer to eternity I get, I have come to a conclusion. Amidst all our opinions about God, His Word and how the Church should function, in the end, God’s mercy will have the final say. His mercy gives me great peace about what will take place...