The "Golden Thread" is a name I have given to my list of writers who have written from a true New Covenant perspective. These men and women wrote (or are still writing) about a life lived by the indwelling Spirit of Christ, a life of union with the Triune God and continual, conscious, conversational communion with …
Tomorrow is Resurrection Day. It seems hard to imagine that here, looking out the window. Today is another "third-winter" day, one of those runs of winter-like weather that appears after a few "false Spring" days. Where I live we measure early Spring in terms of second and third winters, and hopefully not in terms of …
In 1929, an article was published in the Norwegian Christian periodical, Hidden Treasures (“Skjulte Skatter”), the title of which was, “What Jesus Christ is to me.” The author listed 60 different reasons why Jesus was everything in life to him. In these He is describing our Sabbath rest in union with Christ Jesus by His …
John 3:15-16 "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 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 …
Let me be clear about this - I have a great deal of Irish heritage. St. Patrick’s day is here today. If you look at how it is celebrated, you would think that the principle gifts Patrick gave to us are Irish people, beer, green clothes and being drunk in public. While Irish people are …
"Rivers of Living Waters" by T. Austin Sparks. The SeedSowers, www.seedsowers.com Bottom line up front: This is a very important book if one is to understand the work of the Holy Spirit as predicted in Ezekiel's prophecies. The content ties together our God's eternal purpose as fulfilled by the Spirit, and how the New Covenant relationship of union with …
Andrew Murray was truly a man with a heart for our God, a man who understood the New Covenant life in God's Kingdom. One of the most influential and theologically solid writers of all time (who is not in the Bible). If you read only one writer regarding the New Covenant life, read Murray and all you …
How do we remain in a vital union, an abiding relationship in which we are in Christ and Christ in us? The path to living in this abiding life includes loving him with our entire being, more than we love self or any other person or thing. It is built upon our surrendering more and more …
Matthew 10:37-39 “The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And the one who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. The one who has …
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Clive Staples Lewis, 1898-1963, on the Christ who indwells the true believer. "And now we begin to see what the New Testament is always talking about. It talks about Christians "being born again"; it talks about them "putting on Christ"; about Christ "being formed in us"; about our coming to "have the mind of Christ." Put right out of …
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