by Gayle Jackson | May 22, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
Most of us live our life with a drifting commitment to our purpose in life, i.e. Mom and Dad, school, job, wife family, self. These are not bad but God says He has a purpose for us in our lives. Most of us do not figure that out and align our life with God. This is a study we all need to go through for our life’s journey. 1 Chronicles 12:32 And from the sons of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred. And all their brothers were at their command. Rom_8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Eph_1:11 in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will, Joh 17:4 I have glorified You upon the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do-Jesus declaration that He knew God’s purpose for Him. A key need we all have in our life is finding what our purpose for being here is. There is a booklet on Establishing your Purpose that you can get from Pikes Peak CBMC or MIMbooks.com. *Like it or not our life is adding up to something. We all need to know what we want our life to add up to and why am I investing my life in a certain way. Remember, you have a choice, either...
by Gayle Jackson | May 8, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
A problem most all of us will face is our aging Parents. When this occurred to me that my parents were older and the roles were reversing, I asked, what does it mean to honor my parents? The era of aging parent disrupted my family life and created a major struggle in my life. Mat 15:4a For God commanded, saying, “Honor your father and mother”; To totally explore this topic is an extensive, long study. There is a book “Honoring Your Parents” at Amazon or Pikes Peak, CBMC for further study. To get started on this topic, first let me note the word honor here means to “ascribe value to”. Irrespective of your childhood or the misbehavior of your parents, you are to ascribe value to them. In some cases, I have seen from some dysfunctional families that about all that is left for them to “ascribe value to” is that the parents were chosen by God. We are called and commanded to respond in accordance to our observation of them. The accuracy to the application performed in trying to honor the parent is secondary to the attitude that “they are of value”. No matter what your plan is you will probably meet resistance in your siblings, society, your church and your parents. Remember you will answer to God on your thinking and plan. Questions on your study and thinking on Honoring Your Parents are: 1. Do I have any area where I need to forgive or be forgiven by my parents? 2. Do I have any area where I need to forgive and be forgiven by...
by Gayle Jackson | Apr 24, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
The Bible, the Word of God is the key to all we believe. To waffle in your thinking on the accuracy and authority of the Word, is to disrupt your relationship and walk with God. Your commitment to the Word is a key to your walk with Christ. Jos 1:8 “This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely”. 1Pe 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever. Instead of a treatise on The Word, let me ask these questions: 1. Have you ever read/studied the history of the bible and how it came about? If not, when are you going to? 2. Do you know the history of the canonization? 3. Do you believe in a closed or open cannon? 4. Do you believe the bible is inerrant? 5. If you don’t a. What parts are errant to you? b. Can you trust Jesus history and teachings, i.e. His use of Jonah as a historical character? c. If you don’t embrace inerrancy are you declaring your opinion as more accurate than God’s? d. Since Jesus quoted the bible often, what are we to conclude? 6. Do you have problems of squaring the bible with the archeologist? 7. Can you accept creation account? 8. Are scripture teachings, like the following, cultural or...
by Walt Henrichsen | Apr 10, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
“Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased.” Luke 2:14 You recall that these are the words the angels announced to the shepherds the night Jesus was born. When God sent His Son into the world, for the first time since the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, people had reason to be at peace. As the Apostle Paul taught, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”Romans 5:6 Now God could take sinners to heaven without violating His justice and making heaven dirty. All people acknowledge that the presence of peace is an important component in having a sense of wellbeing. The absence of peace results in anxiety, uncertainty, and insecurity, which in turn produces stress and ill health. Your peace is threatened by such things as fear of the unknown, unjust acts, pain, and broken relationships. The world offers a variety of solutions that will ostensibly bring you peace, but ultimately you will only find it in God. Three times in the opening of Paul’s pastoral epistles he says, “Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.” Peace is the product of God’s grace and mercy; you can find it nowhere else. You are wise if you seek it only in your relationship with Christ. For more articles by Walt...
by Ed Allen | Mar 27, 2017 | Articles, What Do You Think?
Mark 5: 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and walked around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat. Observation Jesus heals the child of the synagogue ruler even though she is dead or at least thought to be dead by the time He arrives. Those present are astonished, but Jesus gives orders “not to let anyone know about this.” Interpretation I suggest to you that Jesus tells the witnesses of this healing (as He also did after some other miracles recorded in the gospels) because His time had “not yet fully come.” Jesus would become the savior of His people, even all people, not by popular demand to “make Him king,” but by dying on the cross in payment for their sins. That crucifixion would soon come to pass, but His time had “not yet fully come.” Cross-reference John 6:14 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they...
by Walt Henrichsen | Mar 13, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
“He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’” Luke 8:25 “And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.” Mark 6:5-6 Jesus did not lack ability to heal. Rather, the whole of the New Testament teaches that in order for a person to receive what God offers, he must have faith. Jesus offered to His generation physical healing, evidenced by the whole of the narrative of His life. The lack was on the part of the people who demonstrated an absence of faith. To our generation He offers eternal life, but in order for us to receive it, we must believe. “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11:26 Of those Jesus healed in His public ministry, Scripture records only a few (like the demon possessed man in Mark 5) who wanted more of Jesus than just temporal healing. When you seek from the Savior eternal life, are you in reality seeking it in hopes of obtaining temporal gain? God, who knows your motives, will not grant eternal life as a means of acquiring temporal benefit. Faith is critically important, but it must be faith properly directed. For more articles by...
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