This is a second installment in a series on the Biblical priority given to a conversational relationship with the Holy Spirit within us. The previous post was published February 6. Paul wrote to the Corinthian believers that we have the mind of Christ – how will He make us of that mind if He does …
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Hitchhiker in the Kingdom
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, …
Homemade Solitude Recipe
Image via Pixabay “I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.” - William Wilberforce “And in the morning very early, Jesus arose and went out to a …
Oneness: Living Communion
“If religion is only the garb in which Christianity is clothed – and this garb has looked very different in different ages – what then is religionless Christianity?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer asks the most pertinent of questions; “What then is religionless Christianity?” It is living in a state of growing oneness with our God, having …
Oneness Leads to Fullness
“And you can see them there on Sunday morning Stand up and sing about what it's like up there They called it paradise, I don't know why You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye” “The Last Resort” (Written by T. Graham Brown and Bruce C. Bouton) The Eagles sang these words as a stinging …
Covenants New and Old
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Jeremiah 34:33 “Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view …
Climb Free: Not Religion
A few weeks ago, one of the newer guys who attends a weekly men’s gathering I host asked a great question that occasioned much conversation. His question was this (I am paraphrasing): "The Baptists say this about God, the Catholic church says that about God. The Lutherans say this is the way to follow God. …
To Give Up Self is to Gain Everything
“Abundant life comes to you when the old you ceases to breathe, and the new you comes to life.” A.W. Tozer, perhaps the greatest Christian thinker and writer of the 20th century, compared the New Testament teachings about the cross we are to carry, which he called the “old cross,” with what he called “the …
The Gifts of Easter Pt. 3 –Big Story or Small Stories?
“In speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.” Hebrews 8:13 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did …
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The Gifts of Easter Pt. 2 – A Love Story, A New Covenant
"God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us." Joseph Prince “And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” Luke 22:20 …
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