The Unspoken Good News of Jesus Christ
What exactly is the gospel of Jesus Christ? I’ve been a Christian now for 22 years, and until recently I thought I understood thoroughly what the gospel of Jesus Christ is, I’ve shared it, taught it...
View ArticleUnspoken Good News of Jesus Christ – Part II
Read part I of this post here: If you will allow it, here is the gospel of Jesus Christ as preached by Paul, compiled, repackaged summarized and paraphrased (from Eph 1-3): There is something of great...
View ArticleKnowing Jesus Christ
It is hard for me to talk about this topic without offending people who I love and do not want to offend in the slightest, wonderful people who love and serve God with humility and sincerity. This post...
View ArticlePlease Take this One Question Survey
If you have filled this out, thank you! The responses have been wonderful, I will share the results of this survey in a future post. This survey is about your thoughts on Mathew 18:20, there are no...
View ArticleStrengths… Not Gifts
Our personal intelligence, our emotional strength and our strength of personality are the enemies of our spiritual lives, they are not ‘spiritual gifts’. Our personal boldness and eloquence are the...
View ArticleUnsurprising Responses to Last Months Survey – Gathering in My Name
Have you ever wondered what it means exactly to gather in someone’s name? Jesus Christ said in Matthew 18:20 that if “two or more gather together in my name, I am there in the midst of you.” Last month...
View ArticleA Gathering In Jesus’ Name – Part II
This is part II of the ‘in my name’ post from 10/31/15 and is the follow up of the Matthew 18:20 online survey. Because this is so long I will be doing a final Part III also, this post could be much...
View ArticleGathering in His Name – Part III
In part I of this post we shared the results of the survey about gathering in the name of Jesus Christ, in part II we shared some learning and research about what it means to gather in the name of...
View ArticleCommunity Organizers For Religion
Man-made religion structures have been built in place of Jesus Christ repeatedly and for centuries. The great thing is that he personally dismantles these structures in the hearts and minds and lives...
View Articleاردو میں انجیل
بادشاہی کی خوشخبری (کھولیں خط) میں نے آپ کو بہت اہمیت مجھے لگتا ہے کہ میرے خیال میں ہم، کوئی وجود کیوں زندگی کے بہت معنی کے بارے میں کے بارے میں آپ کے ساتھ شریک کرنا ضروری ہے کے سمجھانے کے لئے امید ہے...
View ArticleWhat Jesus Christ said…about HIMSELF, part1
Recently I’ve seen people post online emphatically that Jesus never actually claimed to be God or divine himself within the gospels and that he is not divine but is just a great prophet, equal to...
View ArticleThe One and Only Christian Burden
“Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my...
View ArticleUnity After the Election?
Directly after the election of Donald Trump on November 9th, Trump, Hillary and Obama all called for unity among Americans. That surprised me coming even from Obama, he seems to really be divisive....
View ArticleA Lifetime of Seeing Christ
We can know about Jesus Christ, we can believe in Jesus Christ but I am convinced that the most important thing that can happen to us spiritually is to see Jesus Christ in a spiritual way. We know...
View ArticleJesus Christ IS Salvation
Do you realize that Jesus said that the Old Testament was about him? Think about that for a moment. It is found in Luke 24:27, 32? He taught this to his disciples after his resurrection giving the...
View ArticleOngoing Transition, Overturning and Ruin
Did you know that we are in center of a massive transition? It is a continuous transition, it is massive in scope and is far beyond any one person’s lifetime. We are transitioning from a human centered...
View ArticleJesus is the Real Seed
Jesus is described as a seed in 1 Corinthians 15. The seeds that we see and use to grow food are not the real seeds, but they are a shadow of the real and true seed of life Jesus Christ. Jesus is the...
View ArticleThe Pricelessness of Spiritual Friendships
One time not long after I became a Christian I believe God connected me with a person who I was to have a “spiritual friendship” with. The connection was immediate and strong but I totally...
View Article“Whatever it is you call God.”
Carl Jung once said “In addition to our immediate consciousness which is of a thoroughly personal nature there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is...
View ArticleWhy Obsessing over Politics is So Destructive for Christians
For years I heard Christians bash other Christians for being liberal and for voting democrat for a variety of reasons. Lately I hear liberal Christians bashing conservative Christians for voting...
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