Tag Archives: Discipleship

The fruit defines the tree

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Mel Wild

As I’ve said many times here, our heart is the gatekeeper to everything. I don’t think I can overstate the importance of knowing this truth. What we allow to gain access to our affections will eventually determine what kind of … Continue reading →

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True Freedom

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Mel Wild

God’s will is exactly what you and I would always do if we knew all the facts. This is why the full knowledge of the truth leads to godliness, which is true freedom. Freedom is defined as “the power or … Continue reading →

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Walking out our redemption

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Mel Wild

Graham Cooke said, “We’re saved once, but we get redeemed from our old ways every single day! We’re learning how to be a new creation.” This is critically important to understand if we’re going to walk in what God intends … Continue reading →

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Our confidence for intimacy with God

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Mel Wild

Unlike the covenant of Abraham and Moses, our confidence is not based on pedigree or performance, respectively (see my post, “How God fulfills His promise to Abraham” for explanation). Our confidence is based on placement. When Christ died, we died; … Continue reading →

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Why read the Bible?

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Mel Wild

I sometimes get asked by skeptics and the indifferent some variation of the following: “Why should I read the Bible?” After all, isn’t it just a bunch of stories about superstitious people who lived thousands of years ago? Don’t we … Continue reading →

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How God redeems our history

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Mel Wild

God not only redeems our lives from sin and death, He also redeems our history. He does this by bringing our past brokenness into the light and reveals truth where we have believed lies. The “Great I Am” has come … Continue reading →

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Leaving narcissistic Christianity to follow Christ

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Mel Wild

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 →

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Why there never can be an online Church

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Mel Wild

While there are a lot of helpful things we can do online as members of Jesus’ Church, it can never be the local church. I personally love writing and blogging, but make no mistake about it, nothing can replace actual … Continue reading →

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Jesus Christ is how we understand ourselves

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Mel Wild

Last time we saw that Jesus Christ is how we understand God. Now we’re going to see how Jesus reveals who we truly are in Him. This is important because how we see ourselves affects everything we think about and … Continue reading →

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Grace and Faith for the Journey

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Mel Wild

Grace and faith work together to empower us to move from what we believe about ourselves to what God believes about us. We’re already complete in Christ (Col.2:10), but not in our experience. We’ll look at how we make our … Continue reading →

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