In my last blog posting, I mentioned that my friend concluded the conversation we were having with a very insightful observation. He told me that he knew his only chance of walking in the victory Jesus won at the cross, and that he was just beginning to experience, would be if he were a part of a corporate group of believers who are on the same journey with him, i.e., a like-minded church. How to find such a church is the question. Amos 3:3…
This past week I had a very encouraging phone conversation with a close friend who lives in another part of the country. He has been struggling with debilitating depression and discouragement, even being briefly hospitalized. He told me that God had just shown him that a seemingly innocent, long-time, recreational pursuit was really an idol in his life, giving him an empty identity as a “success.” In the process, God showed him other idols as well (which he enumerated) that he had used in…
But so is everything in this world that has not yet been captured for the Kingdom of God—the fine arts, athletics, entertainment, business, education, family life, and even religion. Unless the participants in each of these activities are experiencing LIVING BY FAITH (“the Law of God applied by the Grace of God”), as they are involved, the activity will eventually degenerate into a “dirty business.” Examples of each doing so literally jump to mind: from the brilliantly-produced Hollywood movies, to our anti-American, pro-China-leaning professional…
If you have been checking out my blog postings over the weeks, you have undoubtedly discovered that I believe the Bible teaches that we all have been given the commission by God to extend His dominion over the whole earth. This means that we will bring our sphere of influence, whatever that may be, under the rule of Jesus Christ! This will be a new idea for many new Christians and even older ones who may have grown up in a church which did…
In the Christian, evangelistic organization in which I worked for the first seven years after I graduated from college, we answered that title question with the motto we used constantly to fund raise:, “Fulfilling the Great Commission in this Generation.” We used Mark’s version of that Commission as our vision: “And Jesus said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”’ (Mark 16:15). The organization taught that this is why we are here—to witness to every human creature…
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8, 9). These verses became reality at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. There the human race, in Adam, dramatically changed, according to these verses, both the way we live and even the very way we…
A good friend of mine always readily, even eagerly, walks in the light about his own sin, but he struggles with believing that God really has forgiven him for that sin. That his sin is not only completely forgiven, but, according to the prophet Jeremiah, entirely forgotten by God as well, is unimaginable to him. He cannot yet see what he will soon embrace—that our sin is now irrelevant in our relationship with God because of the cross of Jesus Christ! “For I will…
As mankind shows signs of awakening toward our creation commission to rule over the earth, as colonial America surely did, Satan invariably counterattacks. Our last blog posting ended with a promise to investigate the 100-year, satanic attack on our Constitution and what the church has done and will do in response. Following is where I am now in my analysis of these issues, after pondering on them for some 40 years. In the mid-19th century, both evolution and Marxism sprang up on the world…
I am excited! I have been wondering what God is going to do with our country, knowing that the upcoming election will give us a clue. If those who are currently openly attacking the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, prevail, God may be writing “FINIS” over us as a nation, as He did the Northern Kingdom of Israel when they were conquered by the Assyrians. If the Constitutionalists win, He may be bringing us a revival that will preserve and regenerate us. Which…
Several weeks ago we were right in the middle of investigating the diagram that depicts how the Kingdom of God grows, which we call “The Ship of the Kingdom.” I suddenly felt a nudge (I believe from God) to change directions, so for the past three weeks I have temporarily interrupted our discussion of the Ship. I have left its emphasis on God’s law in His Kingdom through the family, church and civil government, and, instead sharpened the other edge of the Sword of…