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: 2 minutesGod can say “Yes” to your prayer and you still fail to receive the answer, because we have a part to play.
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 “believe” means in the Bible.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt took me 24 years of trying and studying to figure out what Jesus meant by “believe.” In this series of videos I want to show you how I learned what faith is and hopefully you’ll learn what it is too
Reading Time: 7 minutesGod’s promises to prosper, and references to those promises, are so common throughout the Hebrew scriptures that deciding how many to list here is the biggest problem. Here’s some from the books of Leviticus, Deuterononmy, Joshua, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Psalms. There are two things you should notice from these scriptures, the recurring promises of prosperity and the link between keeping the covenant and receiving the promised prosperity.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt wasn’t there. I couldn’t find the place in the Bible where God promised Abraham that He would give Abraham power to become rich. I was stumped.Then, while studying the idea of Biblical blessing and cursing, I came across this from the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
Reading Time: 10 minutesSo after 15 years of studying the issue I was convinced that the Bible teaches that God wants us to prosper. Now, I’m so convinced of it that opinions to the contrary seem really silly. Silly, except I used to think the same things. Let me show you what I discovered the Bible says about prosperity.
Let me start with this scripture, because it will eventually lead us to connect with the Christian scriptures in the New Testament.
Reading Time: 19 minutesHow Jesus taught his disciples, and us, to do the works of the Kingdom of God.
Reading Time: 3 minutesM.’s family has a bunch of dogs, some Pit Bulls some Chihuahuas. A few weeks ago they discovered one of the Pit Bulls with its mouth locked around the neck of one of the Chihuahua’s, her daughter S.’s pet.