Contending for the faith | Making Disciples | Equipping the Saints for Ministry
For the last couple of months, I have been considering what it means to survive the times we live in. I do not think the question for a believer is how do I survive these times but how do I stand in these times, withstand them, and continue to stand. There is a difference between […]
A: Romans 12:18 tells us, “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” This includes our adversary. It is true our adversary may be in the wrong, but as believers we are in a ministry of reconciliation and must choose the excellent way of love and righteousness by […]
A: It is clear that Jesus will come back to earth. It is called His second advent. In Zechariah 14:1-4 we are told that He will gather all the nations together against Jerusalem and that is when He will come back to fight for His city and the people of Israel. His feet shall stand […]
Last month I talked about the generations. We have always been wondering if we are in the last generation. For me this will be MY last generation. It is the generation I grew up in and it is dying out and will never pass this way again. Each generation leaves a legacy, but whether it […]
A: My advice would be the three E’s: exposure, environment, and examination. When it comes to exposure you must discern the spirit you are encountering because a wrong spirit can bring confusion, set you up to fall into temptation and bring you under some type of delusion that could cause you to end up operating […]
Regardless of the challenging times we live in, people have an incredible ability to adapt in challenging situations, and when they come to plateaus, they develop the attitude that upon surviving such times, that they can get by no matter what is going on around them. However, their ability to put up with greater bondage […]
A: First of all, there is no gender when it comes to the instruments and vessels God uses in His kingdom work. He is no respecter of persons and does not regard the outside stature of a person but tests and tries their heart. Such a perspective eliminates a lot of criteria that we humans […]
Here we are another year passing us by like a run-away locomotive. Depending on where you are in the timeline of your life, we each eventually become more aware of how we are indeed a creature of time. For each of us there was clearly a beginning, and each year brings us face to face […]
A: The answer is yes, but I also have to point out it depends on what premise you are approaching it from. The world’s idea of a “good” man points to one who is decent, while in the case of God, He is the only One who is considered good (Matthew 19:17). The reason why […]
To me one of the hardest things to do is to know where to look for things that are lost and obscured in the midst of darkness, uncertainty, and what seems to be utterly ridiculous. I can’t count the times I have lost something and looked for it to only fail to see it or […]