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The most dangerous Christian
The most dangerous Christian in the world is not the one who knows the Bible frontwards and backwards, the firebrand preacher, or even the most uncompromising believer. The most dangerous Christian is the one who has entered into the cooperative … Continue reading
The gateway to authentic living
What the world needs now is other-centered, self-giving love, not political activism. Every inhumanity to man and social injustice is automatically taken care of when we treat others the same way we want to be treated. This is the essence … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Love, Sonship
Tagged Christianity, Cooperative process, Intimacy with God, Sermon on the Mount, Spiritual growth, transformation
9 Comments
The best spiritual vaccine against deception
Since Coronavirus has been sweeping through our nation and the world in 2020, I thought it would be good for us to look at a deadly virus of another kind—deception—and the best spiritual vaccine we have against it. This “virus” … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Sonship
Tagged antichrist, Christianity, False teaching, Gospel, Hearing God's voice, Holy Spirit, Intimacy with God, Jesus, Trinity
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Heart and head matters
If the goal is that we grow up into Christ (Eph.4:15), which it is, then we’re going to need to re-form our hearts as well as our heads. These are both critical components for training our soul to live from … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Love, Reformation, Rest of God, Sonship
Tagged Abiding in Christ, Bible, Christianity, transformation
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Knowing His works and knowing His ways
What’s most significant to me about the current move of God is that He’s transitioning us from knowing His works to knowing His ways. I’ve talked a lot in the past about how we’re leaving the transactional gospel for a … Continue reading
Not what you know but WHO you know
Eternal life is not about a place, it’s about a Person. It’s not about what you know but Who you know. It’s not based on believing the right things, although believing them is important, it’s about experientially knowing God as … Continue reading
Posted in Doctrine, Heaven on earth, Identity
Tagged Christianity, Eternal life, Jesus, Relationship, transformation, Truth, unity of the faith
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Leaving narcissistic Christianity to follow Christ
Before I begin, I’m not using “narcissistic” here to refer to the personality disorder, but to living according to an image instead of authentically. In Greek mythology, Narcissus was cursed by Echo, making him so obsessed with his own image … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Identity
Tagged Authentic Christianity, Christianity, Discipleship, Following Christ, Intimacy with God, Narcissism, transformation
18 Comments
What if we returned to the ancient faith?
There’s a quiet revolution going on within the body of Christ; one that’s recovering ancient Christological truths that are setting us free from the powerless, humanistic, and deistic philosophies that have dominated Western theology since the Enlightenment. We’re recovering the … Continue reading
Posted in Heaven on earth, Identity, Reformation, Sonship, Theology
Tagged atonement, C. Baxter Kruger, Christology, Intimacy with God, John Crowder, Nicene Creed, transformation, Trinity
4 Comments
Taste and See!
We’re currently living in a time when the ubiquitous influence of Christianity that under-girded Western culture for a millennia has become a thing of history. But I would be quick to add, this is not necessarily a bad thing, because … Continue reading
To know Christ and to make Him known
At the very center of Christianity is a Person: Jesus Christ. We know this in our theology but sometimes I wonder if we know it in our mission and value statements, especially in our experience. What moves me and motivates … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Love, Sonship
Tagged Christian mission, Christianity, Following Christ, Religion and Spirituality
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