Category: Featured

Posted on

Perspective

legitimacy, validity, authenticity, reality

As I have been contemplating what makes or confers legitimacy, I have observed some things that I hope will be helpful for you.  The word legitimate comes from an old word that means “legal” or to make legal.

There is an order in society that confers legitimacy, validity.  I am concerned that we, as believers, so often errantly take our queues from society on what is valid.  Let's keep in mind that the natural world does not embrace the reality of the spiritual realm, much less it's superiority, as the modern scientist portrays himself as irrefutable.

Finding the center of a worldview can help us understand what seeds are being carried along in it's stream. Continue reading “Perspective”

Posted on

Getting Off The Train

At some point, I got off the train…. with all of it's momentum, with all of it's ambition, with all of it's worthwhile and exciting destinations.  With all of it's swaying back and forth, it's movements, convincing it's riders that progress was being made.  I headed into parts unknown to me, tho I would find a trail in the wilderness, I didn't really know that at the outset.  Others had passed thru and marked a path, in the generations and the seasons that had come before…..  it required focus to make out there markings, as time and weather had worn their edges.  But the path was certainly there, and with diligence could be discerned, and  trusted. Continue reading “Getting Off The Train”

Posted on

Overcoming – Epic Faith II

One of the prevailing influences or “spirits of the age” in our times attempts to govern behavior and life itself  thru commerce and commercial incentive.  This motivation has a final destination in mind and it is not a good one.  You students of the book of Revelation will, no doubt, “get my drift.”

We will need to fight in order to overcome this, to be led, not by money, but by the will of God. Continue reading “Overcoming – Epic Faith II”

Posted on

Ideas That Immobilize

Knowledge that you possess, and are not using, only gets in your way and becomes a stumbling block to real and meaningful contribution.

What follows are some observations I have made as I have worked with groups of people through the years, in work arenas, team building, missions, and also in physical training.  There are many, many ideas that immobilize, and I am sure I have these in my own life that I have yet to see.  Nevertheless, these are some that I have seen in my life and declared war against, as well as some I have routinely encountered in others.  I offer them here as an encouragement to you.  Consider if any of these ideas are holding you back, and if you find one, ask for God's grace to make you free.  He is faithful to answer the call. Continue reading “Ideas That Immobilize”