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Who are You Responsible For?

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Suddenly I saw with clarity the very issue that all the communication skills in the world depend upon. I saw the foundational attitude without which no other ...
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Blame and Control

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Control is rooted in fear and based upon a deception. That deception is the belief that people can control other people. It’s just not true. Oh, I ...
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True Satisfaction

Isaiah 55:1-3 1 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is ...

Thinking Differently about Matter and Spirit

A line is not fully distinct from a point. It is more than a point but still includes all that is a point. A point has neither height nor width. A line has width. A square is not fully distinct from a line but it is nevertheless more than a line. A square exists in a two dimensional reality made up of an infinite ...

Long Seasons of Waiting

How many years from God’s promise to Abram until the birth of Isaac? How many years from Joseph’s dream until he became second in command of all of Egypt? How many years did Moses spend tending sheep in Midian? How many years between the moment David was anointed King of Israel and the moment he became ...

What Do You Believe about God?

I was thirteen years old the first time I got on a roller coaster that looped upside down. I was terrified. There were many prior failed attempts. You know what I mean. I waited in line. I made it all the way to the moment of decision and at the last minute stepped into the car and right on through. It took some ...

Hearing God is Not Passive

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” Rev 3:20 Teddy, my seven year old, was on the other side of the house playing video games. I called him. Nothing. Again I called. Still no response. It was time for ...

A Beautiful Experience

I spent the past week serving some amazing and very beautiful people. A small group of leaders in a nation closed to Christianity gathered together for training. It was my privilege, along with Bob Hamp, to minister freedom to these precious ones and to train them to impart this same freedom to others. Words fail me ...

Seeing Others through the Cross

2 Corinthians 5:16-17 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.(ESV) In my last post I ...

How Does God Exercise Control?

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.(ESV) Paul here declares that he is being ...