I love things pertaining to Jesus Christ, but Christianity, like most religions, has its share of cultish practices. And it isn’t isolated to 3rd world mixtures of Christianity with witchcraft, idolatry, or spiritism. Plenty of it is main-stream. Far from being practiced in darkness, it is headlined…
Kingdom Perspectives: A brief look ahead
“Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness . . .” Isaiah 43:19
For the past 100 years God the Holy Spirit has been quietly but ambitiously urging people just like you to the front and center for His eternal redemptive activity.
Waiting rooms are not known for their charm but now and then they yield an encounter or…
Kingdom Perspectives: Searching for The Highway
“A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the highway of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, shall not go astray.” Isaiah 35:8
Many people are suffering from a deep isolation, even in a crowd. And too often that crowd is a Sunday worship service. What are the fundamental human needs all believers share that can only be…
One of my Heroes
We love our heroes! Politicians, athletes, teachers, soldiers, or actors. Most heroes are revered for their exploits. They fight more fiercely, run faster, make more money, or are more handsome …
Kingdom Perspectives: The day religion died
The day of Pentecost was essentially the day religion died. The advent of the Spirit was the final step in the dismantling of formal religion, and it signaled the opening …
Kingdom Perspectives: Valuing God’s Freedom
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit …
Kingdom Perspectives: Parable of the Leaven
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till all was leavened.” – Matthew 13:33 A solid fact of the …
Kingdom Perspectives: The Institutional Church
The question I’ve posed to The Antioch Group is this: Does the complex organizational / institutional model which is dominant in the American church represent what Jesus had in mind …
Kingdom Perspectives: The Stewardship of our Offerings
“Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” – 1Corintians 4:2 The governing principle of Christianity is ‘Life!’ Earnest Christians, when it comes to their money, and …
Kingdom Perspectives: The increasing influence of the unreal
I suddenly realized the last four buildings I had driven past had an exterior somewhat inconsistent with the business it housed. Taco Bell is not a Spanish mission, Long …