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 …
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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 …
HEALING FOR GENOCIDAL HEARTS
24 years ago, over a 100 day period of time, nearly one million people were slaughtered in Rwanda. It was not war, per se, and it was not a fascist government eliminating the opposition, per se. Rather, it seems to have been anger and hostility smoldering beneath the surface, stoked into full flame by calculating …