Wrong focus prevents many Christians from bearing the fruit of the Spirit. They focus on their sins instead of focusing on who they are in Christ and that Christ lives inside of them. When I focus on myself, the sanctification stops. When I move my sight from myself to what Jesus has done for me […]
Is it possible to live the dream? When you were young, do you remember sitting under a tree daydreaming? I can remember as a child I had some pretty big dreams. I was young and innocent; what a dreamer I was. Obviously, with most of us, as we grew up, many things in our environment […]
When we do things that are not perfect, we easily condemn ourselves. But does God expect to find perfection in everything we do? We all have an ideal in mind concerning the things we do in life. We have been taught to be conscientious about what we do and to strive for excellence. There is […]
An important teaching on the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, the corrupt tree and the good tree, and how this relates to us today. Jesus Delivered Us from the Conscience of the Tree of Good and Evil Jesus prayed: “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” If Jesus said […]
Jesus Christ IS the Life of the believer. This is a glorious reality and is what I call the Grace Walk. Here is an attempt to briefly summarize what that means. Of course, all Christians know the gospel to be the forgiveness of our sins and the saving of our souls by grace through faith […]
How it is that we are to “abide in Christ” When I wrote my first book, Grace Walk, in 1995 there were things I said then that I’d say differently today. Things I think I could have made clearer. The topic of abiding in Christ is one of those subjects. I wrote a lot in the book […]
I used to pray God for a revival in our church, but we need more than a revival. Revivals are wonderful, but they come and go. We need a movement from God to come and stay. We need a reformation coming from revelation, bringing revolution. Grace will bring you out of the prison house, out […]
I became a Christian in 1990 and soon discovered that I had a call to preach the Word of God. The first two years of my Christian life were filled with sharing testimonies about what Jesus had done in my life. The following two years I worked as a youth leader and taught in the […]
Are you glad to be saved? I certainly am. Actually, if you asked every Christian if he or she is glad to be saved, the answer would likely be “yes.” However, if you asked every Christian what salvation is, you would surely hear a wide range of answers: “Salvation means I will go to heaven […]