We live in an angry world, both inside and outside of the church. Everywhere you look or listen people seethe and smolder over the many things that displease them. Church people rage against the culture, of course. But also against each other whose differing views of the culture and how to respond to its …
Category Archives: Discipleship
SUBMITTING TO THE AUTHORITIES
Over the weekend, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, cited the Apostle Paul as a form of support for our government’s draconian “no tolerance” policy that separates children from their parents should the parents illegally enter the U.S. Aside from the unjust practice of punishing innocent children for alleged crimes of their parents, Romans …
GOD WANTS A “PENTECOSTAL” CHURCH
God wants the church more “Pentecostal.” The world needs the church more “Pentecostal.” And, we will never be more than a faint shadow of “church” until we ourselves become way-more “Pentecostal.” Thus, I am praying and hoping the church becomes more “Pentecostal.” If I wrote this 40 years ago, I wouldn’t be writing it now. …
PRAYING FOR AUTHORITIES “MISSIONALLY”
One of the most blatant and common ways Bible-believing people sin is when they (we/I) fail to pray for governing authorities. The Apostle Paul urges, as a matter of priority, to pray for kings and all in authority (1 Tim. 2:1-2). Later in the same passage he says, “I want the men everywhere to pray, …
The Word that Reads You
We who are learned in the ways of Scripture, whether by professional preparation or by personal devotion or both, are vulnerable to a grave danger. We are vulnerable at the point of taking control of the Word for our own designs. Pastors may do this by taking the Word as a tool of the trade …