Intimate Access to the Father Today’s focus has been on intimacy and the role of the Holy Spirit in granting us intimate access to the Father. Jesus is the way to the father. Jesus paved the way to the Father by his death and resurrection, …
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Revolution, Rule, and Fruit A battle rages inside me. It is a battle between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of self. I have been thinking a lot about the kingdom of self since I preached that sermon, “Deconstructing Self” on April 9th. I …
Read More21 Days of the Spirit: Day 10
Speaking a New Name Kids can be mean. Just listen to how they talk to each other. I am not trying to say that all kids these days are mean, vengeful, snot-nose punks. Certainly some kids are trying to intentionally hurt other kids by their …
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Slaying the Giant Within The Christian life is not neat and clean. We could try to clean it up so that it looks less offensive to the world, but if we try to do so when end up sucking the guts right out of our …
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Laws in the Gray Areas The Scripture reading for today is from Jeremiah 31:33: “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their …
Read More21 Days of the Spirit: Day 7
A Moral Compass Here we are at day 7, one-third through our 21 day journey. Today is Sunday and I am preparing myself for today’s message “Who is the Holy Spirit?” I am asking God to make his Spirit known in our midst through my …
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The Power Generator A pastor friend of mine was talking to me recently about his new passion for energy drinks. He is really into the Monster Energy drinks. I picked us up a couple of orange tabbed Kaos Monster Energy drinks one day. In between …
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Desire Desire has certainly got a bad rap in the Church. Desire has lead people to do some idiotic things in the name of Jesus, but desire in and of itself is not the problem—the strength of desire is not really even the problem. There …
Read More21 Days of the Spirit: Day 4
Mirror, mirror on the Wall Today’s reading in our “21 Days of the Spirit” devotional guide takes us back to one of the first verse that we looked at, 2 Corinthians 3:18. The journal has the verse in the NKJV here in day four. Seeing …
Read More21 Days of the Spirit: Day 3
Work with a Guarantee So can a person lose their salvation or not? I have been asked this question and I myself have wrestled with this question for years. And honestly, I have found myself on both sides of this debate at on time. Today, …
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