Meditation is Scriptural In recent memory the spiritual practice of meditation has been mostly neglected by the people of God and instead counterfeited by practitioners of “Eastern” categories of religion and spirituality. Many Christ followers in the west shy away from this practice for the simple reason ...

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 ...

1 Corinthians 2:8-16 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has ...

I’m interested in helping people experience Freedom in 2010. If you are interested in pursuing more of the Freedom provided for you in Christ, here are Six Keys. 1) Understand what Freedom is and isn’t. We must not equate freedom with relief from pain. The Bible defines freedom in terms experiencing ...

1 Corinthians 2:10-16 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have ...

In the last post I introduced the idea that, as Dutch Sheets says, all truth comes to us in seed form. What to a writer, teacher, or preacher may be mature and fruit bearing revelation is still received by me as a simple seed. Whether that seed will ever bear fruit in my life depends upon a lot of factors: the ...

Mark 6:51-52 51 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, 52 for they had not understood about the loaves ; their hearts were hardened. NIV (emphasis added) The disciples had just passed out five loaves of bread to 5,000 men plus women and children. Each disciple had ...

Heb 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.NKJVFaith is the substance of things hoped for. Hope is not just a preferred future. Hope is an anticipated future, an expected future. Faith exists where that which you do not yet experience, but fully expect to experience become ...

Heb 4:12-1612 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open ...

Luke 4:18-1918 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor;He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the ...