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The Value of Being a Zealot
You are not legalistic if you are zealous in your obedience to Christ.
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Manipulating Authority
The urge to manipulate authority is great, and the more absolute the authority, the greater the urge to manipulate.
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The Main Thing
Do we find ourselves “majoring in minors”? Do we start with “You shall love …”? Maybe we need to return to the primary objective and give our attention to how we obtain, and retain, that objective
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Who Me ?
What do you think? Knowing these things, Is it not in the Christian’s best interest to share his faith with those God brings into his life “whether they listen or not?
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At the Instant of a Thought
I believe that the basics of the Christian life – basic blocking and tackling – happens between our ears (in our minds). Every sin either starts with a thought or consists of a thought, so how we handle our thoughts is critical.
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Lies Men Want To Believe – Part 1
God does not want you to fear Him is a lie. As you know, there can be no accountability without phobia. Men do not want to fear God because they wish to avoid being accountable to God; they want to believe that grace eliminates accountability. To convince themselves they quote this verse from the apostle John’s first epistle.
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Are You Entangled ?
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:4 “No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier”. Thought: In the OT the people of God were a people gathered. They were isolated. In the NT the people of God are a people scattered with the mission of going into the world as an Ambassador. We are to engage with the world around us and demonstrate our commitment to Christ as His Ambassadors. Reflection 1: All commitments have risks associated with them. One of the risks of being engaged is that we become entangled, taking the power out of our message as we embrace the world’s value system. Reflection 2: What practical things can we do, as a Follower of Christ, to minimize the risk of becoming entangled while... read more
Jehova Jireh (by Steve Faber)
Several years ago, I moved my young family from Colorado Springs to Salida. I had taken a new position with a company that wanted to establish an outpost there, along the upper Arkansas River valley. My wife and I finally found a home we felt was affordable, just outside of town and we put it under contract. The process went smoothly and in a few weeks, we were closing in on our new place and packing to move. I had started with the new company while living in the Springs and things were going well. We had a plan and it looked, for all intents and purposes, that GOD was directing us to make the move. We shuttled our belongings to a storage facility in our new town and took up residence in a dingy little motel that agreed to let us rent a room for a few weeks, just until we closed on our new place. It was cramped and less than ideal, but the four of us endured it. We avoided any major conflict, opting to walk across the highway to a small city park and “get some air,” rather than arguing with one another. I must admit, the last three weeks of our six week stay entailed many park visits. Then came the day that I received a phone call from the headquarters of my new employer, back in New England. I had crossed swords with the secretary of the owner of the company, in defending one of my support staff from an unprovoked attack. When the smoke cleared, the woman at the home office had... read more
Today (by Ron Hocutt)
A good friend of mine shared a story with me that has stuck with me ever since. He lived many years under the influence of alcohol, and indicated that even as a non-believer, he had a conversation with God every day. It was a simple conversation, but a profound one nonetheless. It went like this: each day, God would quietly ask him in the depths of his heart “Today, John?” To which he would reply solemnly, “No God, not today…” This conversation continued for years as this man’s life self-destructed around him. God, ever faithful, kept asking the question, and he kept answering in the same manner until the one day when God took him down to rock bottom and asked the question “Today, John?” And John answered “Yes, God, today.” Twenty seven years of sobriety later, my friend looks back on that time and reflects on two thoughts. The first is what a waste of precious life that yielded nothing but heartache, pain, despair, and damage to him and those around him that he loved. He drank fully of the deceptions the world offered up to him and received nothing of value in return. The second thought is how thankful he is that God kept asking him the question. At any time, God might have said “Fine, I will no longer ask – you are on your own.” As I reflect on what I’m going to tell my accountability partners on our next call a week from now, my friend’s two thoughts hit home for me. I have committed to certain things and have routinely reported to my... read more
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