It is a miracle to be born again. Most Christians do not realize they are walking miracles! This means everything about the life of a narrow road follower of Jesus is divinely influenced and radically changed. It is important to compare your past without Christ in contrast to your present life with the Holy Spirit indwelling you. You must understand the powerful life you have been given! Philippians 3:13-14 “No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking…
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NEXT STEPS: The Forgotten Role of Female Leadership in the Church
The more you study the Old Testament the more you see how over the years Israel forgot God’s word, His ways, and His Law. Over and over again God had to send prophets and leaders to call them back to His ways. After 2000 years the American church has the same issues of forgetting God’s ways and replacing them with the current culture’s practices. I find this a real issue today. Part of the churches break past the teaching of scripture and follow the feminist doctrines of American society and…
Read MoreThe Power of Truth: What Are We Supposed To Teach Our Children?
In light of God’s ultimate plans and desires for mankind, our methods and direction of education must follow in His wisdom and knowledge. To do this and be effective means we must first examine God’s priorities. We discover this as we read Matthew 22:36-40: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it:…
Read MoreThe Power of Wisdom vs The Foolishness of Sin
Everyone is born with a stubborn heart of disobedience. Children are open to all kinds of deception and temptations because they are without discernment [Proverbs 7:7 “And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding.”] From children to old men, wisdom is missing across our nation. Simple Fool: pethiy [Hebrew: peth – EE] extreme vulnerability, naïve, to be opened up Proverbs 22:15 “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him.” (NKJ)…
Read MoreThe Power of Truth: You MUST Think Like Jesus
George Barna’s book, THINK LIKE JESUS, is a devastating reality book, in a truer sense than the present menu of reality TV shows of the gross and the unusually weird. The facts are hard to deny when they stare you in the face. The truth is 90% of those in America who claim to be born again probably are not, but are deceived hypocrites like Judas Iscariot and will be stunned to find their place in the Lake of Fire. By careful analysis about seven million people in the…
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