Equipping for Life
Equipping for Life
Equip Us is right in the middle of Acts 16:9. Do you see it? No? Well, read the chapter and see what Paul did in response to that request for help. He equipped believers and the churches. So how do we apply ourselves to a request to Equip Us? What examples do we...
Equip the saints for the work of the ministry. How is that for a job description? Your job description was probably put together by some corporate guru and is two pages long with statements that seem to contradict each other. God's job description for pastors is NINE...
When was the last time the heavens seemed to be as brass? Did you need encouragement? You prayed, you cried out, and it all seemed to fall flat. Worse, you begged God to speak a fresh word to you and all you heard was the crickets chirping. I have some encouragement...
Pleasure: sought by everyone but found by few. Why is that? Is pleasure always a fleeting thing? Does pleasure ever really last? While I'm at it, isn't abstaining from pleasure a Christian virtue? Few people find pleasure because it is most often a phantasm, a ghost,...
This mission post has GREAT news! We celebrated that news when this post was first published. It's re-posted so new visitors to our new site can get an idea of the history of the ministry we all share.But in addition to celebrating good news, we need to see a...
'Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.' That's a simple but profound quote left to us by Billy Graham. But prayer seems to be the subject of a great many questions. How come? If you have questions, don't feel bad. You're in good company! The...
Let Us Run the Race The writer of Hebrews penned those words we know so well: Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the...
Do we want joy or unhappiness? Dumb question? We anticipate times of joy and celebration. We even long for them. It should be encouraging to know infinite joy has always been God's plan. And it still is! This post is a little 'academic' but that can be good! So stay...
The message is in the details! This series began with a reminder of the Trivial Pursuit game. And we’ve begun to unpack the huge lessons in what may seem like the trivial details of Scripture. Another example I won’t deal with here is the shortest verse in the Bible....
The manger of Christmas... It's an awesome revelation. But like many things in Scripture, we have heard it and read it until we no longer have a sense of awe much less any curiosity. That’s unfortunate. And this series of posts is my attempt to give you two Christmas...
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