The Hypocrite Test

If you know how to pretend to be on fire for God in the presence of professing Christians, when you are, in fact, as cold as ice, you are a hypocrite. If you spend more time praying, reading the Bible, Worshiping, etc… in church when others are watching, than you do in secret when only God is...

The Prophet’s Cosmic View

The prophets of Israel were remarkable men who had been seized by the hand of the Lord and brought into a cosmic view of time and eternity, righteousness and rebellion, mercy and judgment, Kings and nations, and the stunning responsibility of speaking on behalf of the One on the Throne. In 1962, Abraham...

Faith Is Not Mental

Today’s post is a follow up to my last one on the life of Abraham and growing in our faith.  We’ll pull out some more stuff as it relates to Abraham and Sarah.  Our text this time will be based from the book of Hebrews: By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was...

An Examination of the Rapture: Five Crucial Facts

This a letter that my friend Josh Kirkland sent me. It is a response that he gave a pastor friend who sent him a teaching in support of the  pre-trib rapture doctrine. He examines the points in Biblical context, and offers a different contextual view of the Scripture. So often we read the Bible through the...

A Gentle Revolution

Just a couple of days ago I got the privilege of preaching to my third year class in Bible college. I felt like God put this theme on my heart from 1 Thess. 4:1-12 and so I wanted to put up some of my notes up on that. (Read the passage of 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) if I could encapsulate this passage in one...

Growing in Faith: A Look At Abraham

As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been...

True Expression in Worship

There is an expression in worship that is seldom tapped into. This kind of expression causes a collision between heaven and earth. This is an expression of “deep crying unto deep.” This is the deepest part of man expressing his trueness to the deepest part of God. This is God expressing His deepest and...

10 Ways to Pray for Barack Obama

Whether you are happy about this week’s election results or not, all Christians must unite in prayer for our new president. Please don’t forsake this responsibility. It’s over. We’ve reached the end of the longest, angriest and most nerve-wracking presidential campaign in American history. Finally...

Salt or Pepper?

By guest poster Sidharth Mohandas Covenant is a powerful word… In fact, our entire relationship with God is founded on a covenant. In this article I wish to specifically deal with a covenant called the Covenant of Salt. This covenant as practiced by the Jews was a covenant in word. It was something like...