Some of you are familiar with my testimony as it pertains to my theological shift in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s regarding the person and work of the Holy ...

For many years I did not believe in the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. In those days, when I read First Corinthians, chapters 12-14, I understood those references to ...

So, I have been teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit for several weeks, with several more weeks to go.  Perhaps the thing which stands out to me more ...

Sometimes a verse in the Bible will get inside of you in a way that it becomes impossible to shake. Not that we would ever want to shake off something ...

Over the last few years I have been led by God to place a strong private and public emphasis on what the Scripture teaches concerning the person and work of ...

As we approach the end of this blog series called 3 Questions, I want to deposit one more primary thing that I hear God saying to the Church in this ...

I have really been wanting to get to this portion of the blog series that I've been in over the last few weeks. It's time to address what God is ...

For many, when they first begin hearing intentional teaching about the Kingdom of God, there can arise an unsettling in their hearts. Because most Western Christians have been indoctrinated with ...

Over the years, I have been asked more than once why and how I went from being a solely expositional, theological church leader to one who believes and practices the ...

Many years ago, the Lord ruined me. When I was first saved, He ruined me from enjoying all the unlawful pleasures that had defined my life for the decade prior ...

Moses met Him at a burning bush when he no longer had confidence that God could use him.  Hagar encountered Him when her husband had cast her and her son out, ...

After God saved me in the Summer of 1994, I immediately began to proclaim everything that I knew (which was not much!) about Jesus to anyone who would listen. I ...

Recently, the Holy Spirit and I hunkered down in Psalm 63 together (you may wish to pause right now and read it yourself so you will understand more of what ...

Recently I spent some time with a man whose heart is longing for more of God. Some people cringe at the phrase “more of God” but I have no issues ...

“God loves with a great love the one whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.” – William Booth You need to know yourself… and you need to ...

In 2007 something was birthed in my heart from Heaven. The process is a little too involved to be included in today’s post, but the result of this leading of ...

If someone asked you if you would want to spend today with Jesus walking right by your side, physically present with you, able to be seen, heard and touched, you ...

Trusting that my purpose in sharing my own testimony about how God has led me in a journey with Holy Spirit has been accomplished, I conclude my posts in this ...

One of the hardest things to accomplish in writing this mini-series on my personal journey with Holy Spirit has been choosing what to include and what to leave out. I ...

The story continues today with my recount of that season wherein God began to convince me of the necessity of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. One lesson that the Lord ...

If you are reading this fourth part of my personal testimony about my journey with the Holy Spirit, I commend you for hanging in there. My guess is that there ...

Today’s post follows the two previous posts that I shared last week regarding my own personal journey with the Holy Spirit. If you do not read the first two, this ...

Holy Spirit, Thank You for coming and fulfilling the promise of our Lord Jesus.  He told His followers that You would come to live in us, to complete the work ...

Because I have been asked to share my story as it pertains to the migration from Baptist cessationist to one who believes in the ongoing availability of the gifts of ...

With the launch of last month, many have wondered how I, as a Baptist minister, arrived at the place of leading our church into a journey that included the validating ...