“I’m tired of seeing these Christians praying together during our break time,” a lift truck driver said. “They keep talking to me about this Jesus stuff. It makes no sense.” In a few months, this lift truck driver became an enthusiastic Christian who shared his faith with everyone with whom he came in contact. Often,…
It’s messy meeting with someone who has rejected Christ or the church. I feel inadequate and fear rejection. Josh Packard coined the term “dones” to describe an estimated 30 million former American churchgoers maintaining faith in God and Christian identity. The top four reasons were: Want community and got judgment Want to affect the life of the…
Gary Comer lists the Disclosure window as one of the 10 key mission skills in his book, Remission. A Christian shares present personal sins or struggles to convey grace and Christ’s power, which opens up the dialogue with a non-believer. Luke 11 shows how
Fruitfulness requires spiritual disciplines founded upon God’s word for His watchmen or ambassadors: 1. Sow righteousness and seek the Lord2. Repent, remove the yoke and feed on His word for complete healing3. Stop trusting in wealth but listen to His word through His designated spokesmen4. Acknowledge God who cares, feeds and redeems you from death5. Walk…
In order to develop a biblical worldview, speak against false teaching, transform mindsets by repenting of idols in your heart, use your fame to help the poor and needy, refuse trusting in human strategies, repent and get a new heart and spirit, serve and obey God so the world can see Him, and be broken…
“When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty…. When He is going to do something miraculous, He begins with an impossibility” (Charles Inwood). Would you like to see God do the miraculous in your life? Just observe nature through the rain, clouds and lightning. God commands the powerful lightning to…
Joel C. Rosenberg book, Implosion: Can America Recover From Its Economic & Spiritual Challenges in Time?, explains how the US is in the midst of unprecedented and skyrocketing federal debt, severe economic troubles, political uncertainty, declining morality, a weak church, growing spiritual apathy and apostasy, historic natural disasters and other daunting challenges that many wonder…
“For Christ is of those who are humble-minded and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Scepter of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrogance, although He might have done so. But He came in a lowly condition, as the Holy…
Charles Spurgeon wrote, “The precious blood of Jesus is not meant for us merely to admire and exhibit. We must not be content to talk about it, and extol it, and do nothing with it; but we are to use it in the great crusade against unholiness and unrighteousness, till it is said of us, ‘They…
In Luke 14, we learned that those who minister to sinners come alive. He who turns a sinner from the error of way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins (James 5:20). God continually searches and shows compassion for those who go astray, whether a person is immoral or self-righteous….
For many of us, God seems far away. We don’t sense any closeness with Him. Our prayers seem to boomerang back to us without reaching God. We experience deadness in our spirit. Life is humdrum without any excitement. How can we experience the supernatural working of God and even more importantly, properly steward it so…
In our post-modern culture, we have all sorts of different lifestyle groups. In high school, there are jocks, popular group, wannabees, those hooked on electronics, druggies, ‘body’ guys, freaks, skaters, goths plus many more. Does God have anything to say about our lifestyles and how we should live? Since God made us in his image or…