Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Balanced Belief
We need heroes in the faith. Someone to inspire us, someone with whom we sense a connection of purpose and spirit, someone who coaxes us beyond our fears and out from our selves – we need a few of these along the way. The man that led me to Jesus, Scott Johnson, will forever be…
So, Where Do You Stand?
In John 8:31-32 Jesus said to some who had believed on Him: “If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Abiding in the truth given by Jesus validates that we are His followers. This abiding in His truth, according…
Evicting The Idea Of A Begrudging God
Sometimes fourth graders trust their parents with the same lackluster willingness that we trust God. I spent about half an hour yesterday reasoning with my son that his mom had researched the necessary data and learned that the governmentally-enforced testing he has to take this week would not determine whether or not he would make…
Refusing Carry-On’s
In a very simple illustration during Sunday’s message, Father gave breakthrough to many people. I should not be surprised because the moment in the message was basically a last minute thought which hit me about an hour before I was to preach the morning service. It was not elaborately planned nor sermonically scripted. I was…
Considering An Important Change
There is a choice you can make which is assured to make your journey here below much more enjoyable. Many people, if not most, rarely make this a priority for themselves and it is a shame because of the tremendous benefit it would bring to them. By the way, this single facet of the walk…
Before The Buildings…
Abba, today there will be so many people coming to buildings around the globe in search of something from a higher plane. We are creatures of clay and it seems that we are sometimes held down by a spiritual gravity that keeps us earthbound. We need You on the highest of heights but we are…
Toppling Giants
King David is my favorite person in the Old Testament. A very rare mixture characterizes David’s heart as a man who was both a poet and warrior. He wrote beautiful songs for God but also cut off the head of a giant with the same hands that spread the parchment and dipped the quill. As…
Living Out The Resurrection
It is the week of Easter and I sense His victory, His death-defying power and His unapologetic trouncing of all that opposes Him. I spent this morning reflecting on the smile-inducing, heart-filling, joy-catalyzing ramifications of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. “And when they had carried out all that was written of Him,…
Sobering Scenes
He came to His own but they did not desire to receive Him. He offered them the Way but they turned in a different direction – the wrong direction – and loved their lostness as they spurned His way. He came to them as the Truth but they denied Him and prosecuted Him with lies….
An Open Word About My Approach To Controversial Doctrine
What an interesting first few months of 2015 it has been. Going back to the late summer of last year, I knew God was stirring in me to share what He had been layering in my heart concerning the need for His presence and power in the modern church. Deeply concerned that we biblical conservatives have unwittingly embraced…