Tag: Romans

Maintaining sanity in the midst of insanity

We humans cannot live a life of sanity if we are untethered from anything solid and unchangeable. Imagine if you weren’t confident that tomorrow morning the sun would rise. What if gravity didn’t exist? What if 2 plus 2 didn’t equal 4? It would not be possible to live lives of sanity. We live in a time of insanity, but there is a way of maintaining sanity amid insanity.

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A few insights into the Kingdom of God

The people of God, the Jews, the physical descendants of Abraham, we looking forward to the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately, they had a misapprehension of the Kingdom of God. But then, one day, the time arrived. What they had awaited showed up. His name was John, and he was baptizing repentant people who were longing for the Kingdom. The problem was that most of them were anticipating a military/political/spiritual deliverer. Instead, they got Jesus.

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When being hardheaded is a good thing

During tough times like many are going through now with COVID and its attending disruptions to life, we often hear James 1:2 quoted as an antidote to our pain. The question we should ask when this advice is given is, “Why? Why should I count trials as points of joy?” When I get the answer, I am still scratching my head. What? Because the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. Why is that such a good thing? There is an effect that comes from being steadfast, it produces in us maturity (perfect) and completion (complete in all respects, consummate – Thayer’s Greek Lexicon), lacking nothing.

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Why did God give gifts?

Part of the reason for the incarnation was for Jesus to reveal the Father. He told Philip, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” Luke opens his gospel with a statement of purpose. Theophilus could have certainty about the things he had been taught. In his second volume, the book of Acts, Luke refers to the thing Jesus began to do and teach and illustrates that through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Jesus will continue to minister to the world and his people through the church, his body. 

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The triune God gifts his people

Our God is a God of variety. When he distributes his gifts, those gifts don’t limit us to some confining box and restrict us from being who we are. In fact, when we understand our gifts from God and give ourselves to those gifts, we are “who we are” more than at any other time. We are living according to God’s unique intended purpose for our individual lives.

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My story in brief…

Christ first came into my life at the age of 5 during a series of evangelistic meetings in our tiny country Quaker church house in Gate, Oklahoma. Since then it has been a process of “Stumbling forward by grace, through faith in Christ.” I experienced a significant personal revival at the age of 19 and have been much in love with the Lord ever since…five decades-plus.

My passion is to enjoy the Lord by encouraging others to make progress in their lives…living life successfully. I do that primarily through my disciple-making efforts and through my writing.

I spent about 20 years in public ministry and at the age of 40 decided that I had allowed my passion for ministry to impede my prior duty to my family, so I stepped aside. I found a new career as a financial advisor and now make my living serving my financial planning clients.

I now consider myself to be a bi-vocational minister of the gospel.

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