Category: General

At the core of our beliefs, we embrace grace. In the consequences of embracing grace, we manifest grace through gifts. For some, the consequences of grace disappear right after they get into “unmerited favor.” On God’s part, grace has consequences that manifest every day in the ways that we function in every area of our […]

David, a great leader and champion, had a glaring personal failure with Bathsheba that involved deadly conspiracy and personal judgment for the entire nation. I believe this wound came at the time of his greatest victory of Goliath: David had an unhealed wound with women that struck his heart as a young vulnerable man because […]

Most of the revelation a believer receives involves a relationship with Holy Spirit who is teaching, guiding, comforting, rebuking, and assigning. This is the majority of revelation: God sharing His secrets and being God in a believer’s life. Most specific revelation comes as part of the “assigning,” and most of that should be considered an […]

Most of the revelation a believer receives involves a relationship with Holy Spirit who is teaching, guiding, comforting, rebuking, and assigning. This is the majority of revelation: God sharing His secrets and being God in a believer’s life. Most specific revelation comes as part of the “assigning,” and most of that should be considered an […]

Disposition is a personality tendency, an habitual way of processing experience and responding to life. Akin to “temperament” that originally was studied with the worldview that the stars or planets had determining influence upon human behaviors. The words all have their etymological foundations in this erroneous worldview, but we now use the terms to speak […]

The day they chose the Passover lambs, Jesus rode into Jerusalem. A children’s choir prophesied the ancient Hosanna, and the Lamb was revealed to be the King! The people had their moment of opportunity to chose the Lamb of God. When we properly behold the Lamb of God, we see that He is King, and […]

The day they chose the Passover lambs, Jesus rode into Jerusalem. A children’s choir prophesied the ancient Hosanna, and the Lamb was revealed to be the King! The people had their moment of opportunity to chose the Lamb of God. When we properly behold the Lamb of God, we see that He is King, and […]

The famous or infamous “secrets to success” sales pitch can be heard within the kingdom. The screaming, spotlighted specials, the testimonial pitch from too perfect, too focused spokesmen is a marketing system useful to sell ideas and methods to believers as well as heathens. The “we’ve found the secret” promise has an appeal to this […]

The phrase “jumping to a conclusion” is used to describe the tendency or behavior connected with processing information in which a person reaches a conclusion, decision, or judgment about something without all the facts or considering all the facts. During my early teen years, I accompanied my father to visit a needy family that we […]

An “unforced error” in competition usually refers to something one participant does that has nothing to do with their opponent’s strategy, actions, or skill set. In tennis this could be a serve that faults: nothing the opponent does causes this to happen. Often, even great champions beat themselves more than a worthy opponent defeats them. […]

The circumstances in which you receive vision, calling, and assignment will not be ideal. God won’t wait for everyone else in your life to be fully obedient, functional, mature, and submitted before He speaks. When the vision arrives, you may long for a father to help you understand and implement the vision only to discover […]

The circumstances in which you receive vision, calling, and assignment will not be ideal. God won’t wait for everyone else in your life to be fully obedient, functional, mature, and submitted before He speaks. When the vision arrives, you may long for a father to help you understand and implement the vision only to discover […]

David’s glaring weaknesses was women. My good friends tell me David was born of a different mother than his brothers. In any case, he never seems to have his head on straight about the girls. Personally, I see the beginning of this problem with Saul breaking his promise to David, and perhaps breaking David’s heart. […]

God prepares you for a new weapon by having you perfect your expertise with the weapon you have in your hands. In the same thought profile as “God doesn’t prepare you for giants by having you face giants,” God doesn’t prepare you to swing a sword by swinging a sword. Practice for basketball was confusing […]