by: Dalton Lifsey REMEMBERING Five years ago this month I drove to Aaron and Kristi Walsh’s new rental home in a suburb of Tauranga New Zealand to meet them for the first time. They had flown in the day before from Kansas City where they had labored for 7 years pioneering the International House [...]
CONTINUE READINGGod’s love PRECEDES our love for Him (1 John 4:10; Romans 5:8) God’s love MOTIVATES our love for Him (1 John 4:19; Romans 5:5; John 14:15) God’s love ACCOMPANIES our love for Him (John 17:26; Ephesians 3:17-19; Philippians 1:9) God’s love FOLLOWS our love for Him (John 15:10) The revelation of this first love, motivating [...]
CONTINUE READINGThroughout history preachers have called people to holiness in four primary ways: 1. Portraying Sin as Repulsive – This produces shame-based obedience; The assumption here is that people can resist sin if they’re condemned about it without having an alternative to their sin presented. 2. Portraying Joyless-Obedience (‘Legalism’) as Virtuous– This produces obedience that fuels [...]
CONTINUE READINGThe Scriptures are clear that at the end of the age God will establish a global prayer movement. In fact, one of the main themes of the book of Revelation is the earthly and heavenly prayers of the saints mingling to release the end-time judgments upon the earth. The church is pictured in the book [...]
CONTINUE READINGHere are five reasons why I want to emulate King David in my life: First, David’s great obsession was to have present tense intimate communion with God. The primary way David pursued this was through studying God’s emotions and attributes. No one in Scripture wrote more about God’s emotions or attributes than David. To the [...]
CONTINUE READINGThe promise of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers is a promise of glorious personal interior blessing with manifold external implications. The first text of many that we’ll look at in this ongoing series to develop a holistic understanding of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is Ephesians [...]
CONTINUE READINGThe family of an ordinary young Jewish girl named Mary – like so many other ordinary Jewish girls at that time – had the sublime privilege of hosting Jesus for an evening. John 12, Mark 14 and Matthew 26 all record the event. The Overwhelming of Mary from Bethany At some point during the meeting, [...]
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