Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do. Those
Believing that God is good is absolutely vital to becoming effective in the ministry of the gospel. Without that foundation, it’s not possible to develop the clear focus and the strength of faith to p...
Hope always speaks the loudest.
To be all we can be requires that we are more dependent on God.
Jesus heals the whole person.
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when...
Wheelchair in the mall and bringing healing. Learning how to find people at work where you invade their space and minister to them. You go to the poor parts of town and feed people. Giving words of kn...
Healing, salvation, wholeness, provision, and joy have already been given to us. They can’t be recalled or returned. They are facts of Kingdom living. They were paid for by Jesus on the Cross.
Memorial stones that we put before God—in the form of prayer and generosity—remind Him of our condition, our need, and our obedience.
It is going back to God’s perspective of reality and living as if we really believe it. His purpose—His reality—is to raise up a delegated group of people who work with Him to destroy the works of the...
Busyness is an enemy of true Kingdom experience.
Worship has become a primary part of life. It’s wonderful when it’s in the corporate gathering. But it’s shallow when it’s only corporate. My personal life must be one of continuous worship to experie...
Who are they? It’s the afflicted, brokenhearted, captives, prisoners, mourners, burned-out ones, and the fainting ones because of weakness described in verses 1-3. Think about this. The most broken in...
We cannot use the political spirit in one situation and think we can be free from it in another. The political spirit uses the fear of man and manipulation to get people to support a particular way of...
The standard for the Christian life should not be set by those who have lost their ability to dream for the impossible. Pursuing the impossible is our nature in Christ. Now and Not Yet The Kingdom of...
Many new believers stay immature because they never progress beyond the revelation that they are sinners saved by grace.
I’ll never forget the Sunday that the Lord informed me that it wasn’t my service, and I couldn’t do as I pleased. (Planning is biblical. But our diligence and vision must never include usurping the au...
Evil often thrives in the absence of an authentic righteous standard.
But it is illegitimate to allow fear to keep us from pursuing a deeper experience with God! Embracing such fear causes a failure to the other extreme, which is culturally more acceptable, but signific...
That He is committed to meeting our needs, but not our wants. That concept comes in reaction to those who have taken the wonderful Gospel and made it a self-centered lifestyle, in which we use the nam...