A Cry for Christian Fellowship

Without giving a rigid model on Christian community and fellowship, I felt it would be good to emphasize some of the purposes of finding wisdom from the Lord for a context of life together that is more fitting for the relatedness that He desires for all of the saints. The term community has taken on multiple...

How’s Your Connection?

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch...

The Blessedness of the Mourning Ones

“Blessed are those who mourn…” -Matt. 5.4a The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most staggering portions of Scripture. Oswald Chambers noted that it was calculated to throw our humanity and self-sufficient religiosity into despair, for there is no soul- however impressive their...

The Importance of Preaching Regular Evangelistic Messages

I have noticed an alarming trend in our day of pastors of churches, who rarely, if ever preach an evangelistic message in their services. They seem to have lost their zeal for souls. Perhaps they have even left their first love. In some cases, pastors don’t feel it is their calling to win souls....

The Spirit of Truth

In John 14:17 Jesus said the Holy Spirit will be with us AND in us. These are two different things. The Holy Spirit is with us corporately as a body of believers and He’s with the individual believer, on the inside of us. He builds up the Church, and He builds up the individual believer. In 1 Corinthians...

Apostolic Essence

The Foundation Stone I deeply treasure the terms apostolic and prophetic. They are dear to me. I desire to know, understand, and operate in the fullness of their meaning, as Jesus intended, when He gave them as gifts to us, His church. Only when these gifts are in their proper place in the church, is there a...

Let Your Heart Revive

I am sitting at my desk with one of the original copies of “The Great Revival in Wales”, a book that was published in 1905 and handed out in that same year throughout Western American congregations. It was distributed by a relatively unknown man named Frank Bartleman (author of “Azusa...

9 Ways To Ruin An Altar Call

1. Always give the altar call before you preach, otherwise, sinners and backsliders might understand what they are getting into, and be truly converted. 2. Make sure you ask everyone to close their eyes and bow their head, that way you will both grieve the Holy Spirit and you will give sinners the...

What are you feeding your tree?

“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of...

True & False Apostles

The words of the resurrected Jesus to the church in Ephesus ought to hit home just as much in our generation as they did over 19 centuries ago: “…you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you...