#167 – The Authority of Truth
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Nov. 4 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.* “It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate…
Read More#166 – A Bond-Servant of Jesus
NOTE: Nobody needs this more than me. “Dear Jesus, may it be so.” Ken ————- Oswald Chambers, MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST, Nov. 3 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me…” Galatians two twenty. “These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence…
Read More#165 – Obedience or Independence?
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Nov. 2 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” * Our Lord never insists on obedience. He stresses very definitely what we ought to do, but He never forces us to do it. We have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit with Him. That is…
Read More#164 – The True Church, 3
PORK CHOPSMy sense is that we ought to rethink how we can go about being the church. Our little Sunday evening group wouldn’t be meeting because some were away, and I was wondering what we’d do for fellowship last weekend. Sure enough, on Thursday a friend texted wondering if we’d come for supper Saturday. What…
Read More#163 – The True Church, 2
OUR CALLINGYesterday we saw that God’s expectation of His Church is lofty, clearly stated and purpose driven. We are to showcase the superiority of the life He offers as compared to Satan’s, so that others want Him too. There’s a lot of hurting people out there who are trying everything imaginable to appease their hunger…
Read More#162 – The True Church, 1
A MYSTERY, OR NOT?In this little series we’ll see that what constitutes the Church that Jesus intended is NOT a mystery, and why it’s not. And we’ll see that it IS a mystery, and why it is. Both are true and that’s part of the mystery. To start with, scripture is very clear about it.…
Read More#161 – We The Church, 10
YES, JESUS IS BUILDING HIS CHURCH Yes, Jesus IS building His Church as He said He would, but many can’t see it. They’re too fixated on their worldly lifestyle and on the church as they have known it. They are not alert to what is happening in the two spirit realms, that is, that God…
Read More#160 – We The Church, 9
JESUS IS BUILDING HIS CHURCHJesus IS building His Church as He said He would. Today. Amidst the deep darkness of this world. But where is it and what does it look like? How do we know it when we see it? Are we looking in the right places? HEARTSThe first thing is to know that…
Read More#159 – We The Church, 8
THE LAST 7 WORDS – –We humans find comfort and security in things as they are and often become restless with change. How we do church is a prime example. Most of us acknowledge that our society is profoundly different from 10 years ago, but many still can’t see that it effects “church.” Isaiah and…
Read More#158 – We The Church, 7
CHURCH BY THE BONFIREA week ago tonight, Elaine and I were invited to a bonfire with 20-25 others. We had met one couple previously, but all the others were strangers to us and many had not previously met each other. We were young and old, born-again anywhere from two weeks to nearly 70-years ago, and…
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