Expanding the millennial vision helps me to prepare for the coming changes. For the church, they won’t be painful yet still massive. Try to get your head around the idea that within a decade or so we will be living in complete spiritual union with our fiancée, Yeshua Messiah. Judging by Jesus’s priestly prayer before He and His disciples headed down to Gethsemane, it is clear that when the marriage is consummated at the marriage supper of … Continue reading →
Procedure or satisfaction seems to be the crux of this problem I’m seeing. It’s not recognizing where the life is coming from. A large problem is my tendency to see importance without thinking things through. But this has been going on for a long time. I finally learned what the core problem is. Part of it has surfaced again recently as I have turned to evangelical pastors on YouTube for teaching scripture. At least they are covering … Continue reading →
The end of doctrine draws near and I (for one) am very pleased. Doctrine is used to build a denomination. The age of doctrine is nearly completed. It was necessary for a group which is breaking off from the overall church as a result of the effort to reform it. In a real way, Luther was the impetus for the beginning of the denominational wars. Don’t tell him, though. He’d be upset. It was necessary because Luther … Continue reading →
Screw around with no consequences is the core message of the pro-choice crowd. It’s at the side of the wide and easy road. It always has been. No one wants to deal with the fact that the designer of us all designed us so that this caused a lot of problems—which we are now living through. Avoiding those problems is the reward for following the original plan. You know where the man cleaves to his wife, and … Continue reading →
Evangelism or discipleship we need both and it’s a real problem. The Lord has been working on me for the past five years. He has me attached to an aggressive special forces evangelistic church. I’ve had a hard time with it. Because they have a clear call and they are anointed in that direction. But I come from the discipleship camp. My current church does not do any discipleship, as I understand it. It’s been interesting to … Continue reading →
Laying the foundation for helping the religious into Life is necessary. At this point in the Church Age we’ve come to the place where the normal believer’s life has nearly disappeared. It’s hard to ignore the huge numbers of religious people who have not fulfilled the basic necessities of salvation. I call them churchians, as opposed to Christians, let alone believers. Before we can talk about what a normal believer is, we must lay a solid and … Continue reading →
Functional cessationism is a major problem as the world falls apart. As the endtimes intensify, His power will become more and more important in our lives. These are truly the perilous times Paul taught about in II Timothy 3: 1–3. We need the Holy Spirit to thread our way through the increasing chaos. As I’ve shared many times, The Lord has been radically disciplining me over the past five years since my wife went home. Part of … Continue reading →
A recreated believer is required to enter the Kingdom. It’s your ticket to get out of here. This is how you are introduced to the King. And you certainly do not want to hear, “Who are you? I never knew you,” on that day. The trick is that like all things created by the Lord, your rebirth from God will be highly individualized. There is no set way. For me, it is obvious that you must be … Continue reading →
Mountains and islands gotta go —for real. Scripture is clear that the mountains will be laid low, the valleys will be filled and the islands of the sea will disappear. This is a major remodeling of the planet…coming to a time near you (probably within the decade). “For the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is split through, the earth is shaken … Continue reading →
The initial assumption is that scripture is literal —I’ve known the Lord for a little over fifty years. But I agree with this basic position more every year. Every year I find more places where scripture is meant to be taken literally. That applies from Genesis through Revelation. This is not a place to argue specifics. What we want to encourage you to do is make it one of your prime tools to study scripture. “Is this … Continue reading →