If you ever talk or counsel with someone going through job loss, career transition, or empty nesting – this loss of personal identity is extremely stressful. In many cases, the loss or lack of identity can be MORE stressful than…

Yes. You can quote me. 

As evil continues to outpour more and more via tragedy, pain, hurt, distress, fear, and division … I tell you, watch for an unparalleled and permanent global outpouring of His Holy Spirit. 

Don’t…

We don’t faith harder, we believe DEEPER! 

* Believe deeply that YOU are loved. 
* Believe deeply that YOU are already free from sin. 
* Believe deeply that YOU have already been forgiven. 
* Believe deeply that YOU…

Law and grace are two OPPOSITE viewpoints … and when mixed together they simply CANNOT be digested well by the body of Christ. 

The law says … I must do or else. 
Grace says … He has already done. 

Prayer for Peace ~ Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. 
Where there is hatred, let me bring love. 
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon. 
Where there is discord, let me bring…

Love, patience, humility, and kindness wrapped around truth cleans the INSIDE of a person. Anger, fear mongering, rules, threats, and judgment of man cleans the OUTSIDE of the person. 

The truth of love cleans behavior. The threat of law…

Don’t let “unfinished business” from the past steal fruit right off your tree. 

Past hurts, failures, and rejection left to fester often becomes the devil’s playground for anxiety, stress, anger, fear, hopelessness, depression, addiction, relationship issues, sickness in the…

“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows (Hebrew is chalah); yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted” Isaiah 53:4 

Hebrew chalah pronounced “Khaw Law” 

Internal and external sickness 
Anxiety 
Sadness …

I was recently talking in my kitchen with Leslie Thompson, and we stumbled onto the topic of extremism in theology. I started off by saying that extreme doctrinal positions are destined to fall apart (i.e. all saved, Jesus came…

Several people have suggested we have 2 natures. A sin nature and a divine nature. People suggest that the flesh constantly wrestles against the spirit - and we are essentially of 2 distinct parts: earth and heaven. 

Yet. Ezekiel…

True grace sustains and shelters during a storm in order to grow the very one being sheltered. In other words, true grace often changes the person instead of the circumstance. 

Despite rational thinking: 

* Abraham had to leave…

I remember as a young pre-saved kid at arena rock concerts, people of all ages would lift their hands. 

Yep. Van Halen, Triumph, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, et al. 

Man. I know I lifted my…

WHERE PEOPLE GET TRIPPED UP: 

How can the law be fulfilled, but not abolished (or ended) … and still continue (Matthew 5:17-20)? The law of Moses has NOT been abolished, and continues on - but quite differently for both…

I clearly remember my last day of regular preaching in the brick and mortar. 

I remember driving to church that day praying, and I said out loud, "God, if this grace stuff is your Truth - I need…

Bondage comes in many forms: 

Self 
World 
Works 
Performance 
Religion 
Pushing the gospel beyond Truth 
Wrongdoing 
Abuse 
Greed/Pride/Lust 
Faulty thinking 
Comparison 
Addictions 
Shame 
Mistakes 
Hurtful past 
Etc 

But. 

Some like their prisons, and some barely recognize the…

We can't pour new wine into old wine skins or the old wine skins will burst. 

Why? 

The old skins are fully stretched out, and unable to flex and give with the chaotic nature of the chemical reaction…

Tired? Worn? Exhausted? Waiting? 

Why continue to bless others - even when the fruit on the tree doesn't ever seem to turn ripe? 

Why keep doing the right thing, when nothing ever works out to BE the right…

We all have giants in our lives, we can ignore them … but eventually we will have to deal with them. Yet. Our destiny runs right through them. 

Let me explain using Israel. 

Having left Egypt and escaped…

Seems to me that Jesus came for people with lots of emotional baggage - prostitutes, adulterers, cheats, extremely ill. 

Note, he never condemns them for their baggage - instead He offers to carry the baggage FOR them. 

There…

Let me repeat my goal here. It's not to change the minds of those who believe this teaching, it's to help those who may fall prey to it. 

As a quick review: 

1) Calling it "gangrene" and saying…