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April 13, 2016
Never try to teach people you have not prayed for
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. 1 Samuel 12:23 (NIV2011) One of the first thing I did when I became pastor was to take pictures of everyone in […]
April 12, 2016
February 24, 2016
Teach for application
Jesus taught for a response. He taught for life change. He didn’t come to simply dispense information. We rarely find him chastising people for their lack of knowledge. It was almost always their lack of faith evidenced by a lack of application. “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” he asked the […]
January 23, 2016
Take the World!
“All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore. . . .” This is not only a privilege; it’s an order. “Go ye into all the world.” God doesn’t want you to take an island. He wants you to take the world. Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make […]
January 22, 2016
Our character is shaped by three fundamental motivations
If God genuinely exists and if God is committed to our highest good (this book presumes both to be true on the basis of the Scriptures), it only makes sense that he would be in the motivational business. God knows we need all the positive motivation we can get! No motivational speaker you have ever […]
January 17, 2016
Our God Reigns
With all my heart I believe the reason so many wonderful Christians don’t accomplish more in their lives is that they don’t believe Jesus meant what He said. They’ve never come to believe that the all-powerful One who commissioned them could enable them to do these greater works. The last thing Christ told His disciples […]
January 12, 2016
An Army of soldiers
What is the need of the hour? I don’t believe it is any of these. I am convinced that the God of the universe is in control, and He will supply all these needs in His own way and in His own time, all else being right. The need of the hour is an army […]
January 11, 2016
Our behaviors flow naturally and effortlessly out of our character
Cause and effect is uniformly embedded throughout creation. Jesus spotlighted it when he compared human nature to the natural world: “So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit” (Matthew 7:17-18). Your character, like the […]
January 9, 2016
The Need of the Hour
What is the need of the hour? That depends on the person who is thinking about it. For a beggar with a tin cup, it’s a dime. For a woman being taken to the hospital, it’s a doctor. But what is it in Christian work? I started to list the things we often feel are […]
