Reading Time: 7 minutesI sometimes imagine evangelical seminaries and Bible schools having game nights where they play, Name That Heresy. Future pastors,theologians and ministers compete against each other to see how few of a religious opponents words they need to hear before they can identify his heresy. Game Show Host: This so called minister was …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have a tendency to read the Bible as though it’s always addressing us and our needs, but it’s often addressing us as the disciples of Jesus, explaining how we are to meet the needs of others, how we are to collaborate with God in causing the Kingdom of God to show up on the earth, how we are to do the works of Jesus, the works of the body of Christ. That’s the case with this passage…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteContinuing the story of how I learned what faith is. So my question was, is faith something that happens to me or is faith something that I do? In the course of meditating on Mark 11:23 I discovered that the first part of faith is knowing something on the inside, in your heart, in your
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Reading Time: 19 minutesHow Jesus taught his disciples, and us, to do the works of the Kingdom of God.
Reading Time: 6 minutesJesus was going to be made ruler over all the earth and his disciples would become the instruments, the executors, the putters into effect of his reign. So he says to them, whatever you decree in my name I will do it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe had so many great testimonies last Sunday I thought I’d share them with you. What blesses me most is that all of them, except the last, are the result, not of mine or Becky’s prayers, but of the prayers of other people in our church. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see the people we have taught doing the work of the Kingdom of God…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost people think that the “secret” to prayer is getting God to want to answer our prayers. But Jesus taught, the Bible teaches, that God’s “yes” to our prayer, is pretty much a given. God wants to answer our prayers, it’s his desire. My hope with this program is that you will listen to it before you pray, that faith for answered prayer will then come and that when you pray you’ll know that God has said “yes” to your prayer. This is a YouTube video that lasts about 36 minutes. You can watch it in HD if you have a good enough connection.
Reading Time: 6 minutesUnfortunately, most people’s Christianity is all hat and no cattle, all blow and no show, all mouth and no trousers. I like to call believers who can actually deliver the goods, believers whose God actually shows up, just like Elijah’s and Anthony’s and Paul’s, Blackbelt Christians.
Reading Time: 6 minutes(This is the first message in the series Becoming a Blackbelt Christian. If you just want to listen to the tape skip to the end of the post. This introductory material is not on the tape however and I think it’s very interesting and important.) Christianity is supposed to do something, if it isn’t doing