The Bride That Wasn’t All There…

Have you ever been to a wedding where only part of the bride was there? Maybe even most of her? But she forgot a hand or another body part at home? I don’t think I have. A few weeks ago I was in Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada. It was an unbelievably beautiful church cathedral with incredible...

Another Gospel

“Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” I Corinthians 9:16 The above scripture reflects the heart of a man consumed or owned by the call of God that stems from the message and the reality of the gospel. The Apostle Paul’s...

More Reflections on the Water Turned into Wine

“Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.  Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of...

The Spirit-Possessed Society

(This is a poem inspired by NT scholar F.F. Bruce’s description of the first Church in Jerusalem in the book of Acts. He dubbed them “the Spirit-possessed society.”) I see a society, peppering the globe, Through the lens of faith I’m permitted to probe, Who are these ones, these...

Habitual Sin & Holy Ostracism

By Jerry Bolton Recently on Facebook, I posted a video of Dr. John Piper responding to the question “How should Christian friends respond to a friend who has entered a homosexual relationship and moved to a church that accepts it?”. During the discussion that followed, I realized there’s...

Love Thy Neighbor

As I was trying to sleep I kept thinking about two topics: love, and church structure.   I wanted to write about what I understand the love of God to be–within the character of the believer; for we all know that God’s greatest definition of Love is that He made us for Himself and loved us so...

Authority, Accountability, and the Apostolic Movement

Few books have come into my hands in the last few years that have made me want to get other people to read it. When I read a few reviews online about this book by Dr. Stephen Crosby stating it would cause ‘uproar‘ and ‘explosion‘ in the modern charismatic and apostolic movements, I...

Authority vs. Submission

Knowing exactly what authority is and what it is not, is absolutely critical in a world where we face it everyday. When a policeman flashes his lights behind you and tells you to pull over, by what basis does he have the authority to make you do what he says? When your child in the backseat orders you to...

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...

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...