There is something extremely powerful in the words that audibly come out of our mouths. First, and possibly most importantly, because our words are a testament to what is already in our hearts (Luke 6:45). But, secondly, and actually the…
Sounds academic. Maybe too academic for you to bother with. But, before you tune me out, or click out of this blog, you may want to think twice. The enemy is using the absence of dialogical tension in our world…
Think of a lover spurned. Or deep envy over someone else's position or possession. Not the kind of emotion you would normally ascribe to God. We think of jealousy mostly in a negative sense. It shows up in several of…
I was a young man back in the '60's. My father pastored a church in South Africa that, at the time, was associated with the holiness movement. The holiness movement began in the late 1800's, influenced by the renewal of…
It was Jonathan Edwards who first capitalized on the capabilities of the publishing world, as it existed in New England in the mid-1700’s, to let the rest of the world in on the outpouring of the Spirit in his church…