Don’t Love This Enemy. Kill Him.
Sunday’s highest calls are for us to love & worship Jesus Christ, and then to love & serve others. That sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Truly it would be, if not for one persistent problem that continually seeks to get in your way. Nope, it’s not the devil. It’s not your spouse, your children, the…
Urgent Kingdom Need Overseas
There has never been an occasion in the ten years of Transforming Truth’s existence when I have made an online financial plea for our own support needs. We trust God implicitly, and approach Him in prayer, and He always has children in the Kingdom who can help us with our media outreach. When we do…
Joy Continues On (Final Thoughts on Joy)
Weary of your struggles or suffering? You cannot wish it away or ignore it into oblivion. When pain comes it can do a number on us in a short time. When it remains, it can actually influence us so much that we change into a person different from who we were before the pain arrived. When…
Pursuing Joy (part 3, a follow up concerning Suffering & Joy)
My previous post began to unpack what Paul was describing when he peculiarly proclaimed that “we rejoice in sufferings”. Recognizing that I needed to take some care in how I deal with this subject, I left off that post from Tuesday, and am resuming it after much thought today. All of you reading have undergone, are…
Pursuing Joy (Part 1)
There may not be any characteristic of the Christian life that is more attractive than genuine joy. The bible never asks the followers of Christ to paint on a false smile, give glib answers to tough questions, or to deny that life is fraught with difficulty. Joy is not pretending. Joy is overcoming and receiving. Joy…
Banished Shame, Evicted Fear
Most of you well-know the account of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Growing up in America we have been exposed to the facts of the Gospel, especially here in the Bible Belt where many of you were raised. Whether or not we have staked our souls on the claims of the Gospel is an entirely…
When Methods Become Monuments
Today, I awoke with a specific bible passage on my heart, and thought it might be helpful to share some thoughts on it with you. For a little more than three years, I have been following Holy Spirit as He leads me and those whom I am allowed to shepherd into some previously uncharted waters for us. Not everyone has…
Is God For Me or Not?
You have likely wondered on occasion whether or not God is actually for you. Most of the time when this occurs there are some forces in play: guilt over some failure, fear of being misinformed about God’s goodness, unfavorable circumstances which show little promise of improving, or perhaps a memory of a painful loss which…
Closing Down the Religious Spin Cycle
“Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.” – Proverbs 19:21 What a simple and empowering nugget of truth we have in this verse. We humans make lots of plans of various types. From those plans, systems proceed and we find something…
Letting Them Walk
A lot of awful things have occurred under the banner of compassion. Helping people is one of the practical ramifications of a heart made new through faith in Jesus Christ. The Scriptures indicate that Jesus went about doing good (Acts 10:38) and how so much of His ministry exemplified the heart of God to come…