There are few things more revealing than this simple question: Why does the thought of standing before Christ still fill so many believers with dread? Not unbelievers — believers. Sincere Christians who love the Lord, who desire to please Him, and who take Scripture seriously. If that describes you, this article is for you. When…
When the Church Replaces Christ How Spiritual Fellowships Become Systems — and How Overcomers Escape Without Bitterness The New Testament does not present the Church as the source of spiritual life, but the vessel. Christ is the source. When the Church becomes the center, the source, or the intermediary, the result is always the same:…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 8 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven And there we saw the giants… and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. — Numbers 13:33 The First Battlefield Is Not Canaan — It Is…
(Iron Sharpens Iron – Post 4) Where God Teaches the Heart to Know Itself There is a classroom the Lord conducts that few speak about, yet every saint is enrolled in it. It is the school of hindsight — where the Spirit lets us look back on the long winding road of our own decisions…
(Iron Sharpening Iron – Post 3) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another…. — 1 John 1:7 (KJV) Self Still at the Center True fellowship is not fragile — but it is selective. It flourishes only where light is welcomed and Christ is…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 7 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes Sin as a Personal Captor (Gen. 4:6–7 • 2 Tim. 2:26 • 1 John 3:8) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, **sin lieth at the…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 6 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes When Fear Refuses Inheritance Most believers expect giants to show up in “big” crises, not daily decisions. Scripture shows the opposite. Giants appear wherever inheritance is at stake. In this first part of Giants…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 14 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven When Truth Breaks the Yoke There are moments in the Christian life when the war is long, the night is deep, and the voice of the accuser has worn grooves in the mind. No…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 5 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes Conflict as Formation: War as the Means of Enlargement “Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them… to teach them war.” — Judges 3:1–2 The modern believer assumes…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 13 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven Discerning the Voice of the Spirit from the Voice of the Accuser In every believer’s life there comes a moment where the fiercest battle is not fought against the world, nor against circumstance, nor…