How To Meditate — Understanding This Lost Biblical Artform

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but...

What Are You Saying?

I’ve decided to go in a certain direction with my entries on this site for a little while. This will be the first of around 6-8 posts, based on a series of personal blog entries I posted in the Spring of 2007 while living in Holland.  I had been putting something into practice in my personal life, and...

Is There Money in the Ground? (Matthew 13:1-9)

The whole Bible is the inspired Word of God (1 Tim 3:16). The Holy Spirit saw to it that this Book was written and the content was selected the way it was, and in the order things were put in there, for whatever reason He saw fit. I’m not a big fan of lifting things out of context and I try not to do...

The “Secret Things Belong to the Lord” misquote

This entry might be well placed in the “classic objections to divine healing” category of my blog. I mean no disrespect to those who suggest, that somehow, in God’s sovereignty, He does things and we don’t know why–and people not getting healed, is in that ‘category’...

Faith Is Selfish

Isn’t that a catchy title? I know that messes with some of your heads and sounds pretty blasphemous to some, but I almost mentioned this in a previous entry on faith, and realized I needed to devote a whole entry to it. This is a detour on the ‘speaking’ theme, but I’ll get right back...

What Did Jesus Command The Disciples Regarding Healing?

Matthew chapter 10: “as YOU go, preach this message” They had to go do it. Simple enough, right? Imagine seeing someone standing on a street corner with their mouth open, and going up to them asking what they are doing. Imagine they tell you that God told them to go preach the Gospel, and you ask...

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

The ministry of the Holy Spirit brings us out of a walk in the flesh into a walk in the Spirit (see Romans 8). Our “religion” is different than any other. Not only has our God recreated us and taken us out of the realm of darkness, the third person of the Trinity–no less God than the Father and...

How were we taught to pray?

“Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from...

WWJD?—No, seriously

What Would Jesus Do? The last time I visited my local Christian bookstore, I saw that these bracelets are still sold, and I’ve seen maybe five or six people sporting them in the last week or two. So I know this topic is still discussed and talked about. That question however is best answered by...

Why Don’t All Get Healed?

Here is the question I will tackle because numerous people in the last little while have approached me thinking that this is a loaded question that single-handedly defeats all reason to believe in divine healing: If it’s God’s will that all should be healed, then there would be no sicknesses or...