By Stephen, on July 26th, 2010
You probably can’t imagine there being a glory to your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember-things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God’s truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having. … → Continue Reading: The Fear of Being Called Out
By Stephen, on July 22nd, 2010
Many people find that the dilemma of desire is too much to live with, and so they abandon, they disown their desire. This is certainly true of a majority of Christians at present. Somehow we believe that we can get on without it. We are mistaken. … → Continue Reading: If Deadness Is Next to Godliness
By Stephen, on July 1st, 2010
If life give you lemons, make lemonade;
If life gives you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
But if life gives you a truckload of hand grenades…
maybe someone’s trying to tell you something!
When our lives are no different than those who do not claim to know Christ, we have missed something core to the faith. When we live as Posers and try to ‘look’ like something we are not, we are not doing them or ourselves any favors. Do you realize that people need to know that Christians are just as real as they are? That we have struggles, failures, besetting sins and addictions. The only difference is that we have a Hope and that without the Hope life is worthless and futile. … → Continue Reading: Lies We Are Told About God — Pt 16
By Stephen, on June 30th, 2010
Could it be that God hopes over us with an expectation of obtaining good or something welcome? Could it be true that God has a “confident expectation of good” for our lives? … We have reduced Hope down to wishing or wishful thinking in our personal existence. Yet it is so much more. Hope is precious and our very existence depends on hope…God made it that way. The key is that Hope depends on Truth. It must be grounded onto and into Truth. But our culture routinely attaches their hope to false ideas, deceptions, and even outright lies. … → Continue Reading: Lies We are Told About God — Pt 15
