The Path of Life: Fields
God created human beings to be productive people with many fields to till and harvest.
God created human beings to be productive people with many fields to till and harvest.
The perfect book to read with your family this Christmas season.
Waiting is the work life demands—the planting, watering, and tending that bring the harvest.
Through the Mind of Christ in us, we can see and understand the love, law, and logic of the Kingdom of God.
When we turned to Him in repentance, faith, and confession of His Lordship, we became a branch in the True Vine—vitally and functionally connected to Him.
The beauty of the Kingdom of God is the beauty of the King Himself—the beauty of holiness!
Only eternity will balance the scales. The Kingdom that is coming will be one that is fair to behold and fair in all things else.
Dragons are a metaphor for our fears—those undetected beasts of the night and those predators lying in wait in tomorrow’s high grasses.
God’s love and His mercy form a mountain range of protection around those in Covenant with Him.
When God visits the earth, creation responds. It was so at Mt. Sinai—and at Mt. Calvary.
The human spirit hungers for holiness—the nearness of God, the purity of His character, the safety of His name.
The King of Glory is the answer to all the world’s problems, from the most private to the most public pain.
We can rejoice with the touch of the Master’s hands on our backs to keep us on track and in front of us to slow us down when disaster looms.
When it is time to speak, we need the boldness of the Holy Spirit, and when it is time to be silent, we need the Holy Spirit’s muzzle.
Entertaining fools are dangerous when deception is their goal.
The song in the night must be sung—it demands action—a deliberate transfer of thoughts from nightfall to morning light.
Jesus is the Mighty Warrior—He Is the Lord Our Banner!
If we have met Jesus eye-to-eye in faith and repentance, the record has been cleared.
Like a young child crossing a dangerous street, we have a hand to hold every step of the way.
The opposition of God—His resistance—is a serious matter, but the arrogant are blind to this.
Jesus rebuilds broken pots, making the useless useful again.
When we walk through the rubble that was once our lives, His arm is around our shoulders, holding us up.
We must turn our eyes away from the world’s vanities to the truly beautiful things of the Kingdom of God.
And so it is with life—preparation for the procession qualifies us to march in peace.
Jesus said we should just tell the truth: “Let your no mean no and your yes mean yes.”
We dare to approach the nearness of the Almighty because there is over us the shadow of a cross.
We have all been empowered by His Spirit to serve Him in His power, not in our own.
The Apostles experienced their personal transformations by the power of the Holy Spirit in the Secret Place and so can we.
The Christ-follower who has been melted by the Refiner’s Fire of the Holy Spirit is the one who is useful to the Master.
We can have an inner sense of balance based on truth, stabilizing truth.
The Word is alive in us through the Holy Spirit giving us a sort of spiritual inner ear to help us keep our balance.
Secret Place prayer is the furnace that forges the steel structure of the supernatural life Jesus taught.
The words of the Bible are not only to be heard and read but to be kept.
There are hunters dispatched to hide in the weeds of the culture, stalking the unwary potential prey.
Our heroes would remind us that the nations and the peoples need Jesus.
Mornings are full of promise—as sure as the turning of the earth.
We don’t remember the beginning but we celebrate the date every year watching the candles crowd to the edge of the cake.
Let us be constantly aware of the sources that produce the poisons hidden among the blessings.
This new worship would be “worship in spirit and truth” not in time and place.
The Family of God can enter into that rest because Jesus and His mighty angels have the Night-Watch.
We must be so careful to speak to ourselves with the voice of faith and not of fear, of righteous things and not rotten things.
His mercy is in effect all around us, forcing all things to work together for our good.
The love of God is glorious in mercy, compassion, kindness, and long-suffering.
As we rush through life randomly selecting what to listen to and what to ignore, we need to listen for the fanfare God sends our way.
We need not fear the crisis for we have a proven plan—call on Jesus!
The Lord is wonderfully continuous in His care for us, He never sleeps or slumbers.
We come into this world with hearts bent out of shape, but that is not the whole truth.
The pasture in which we are enclosed (not confined!) is His Kingdom.
Yes, the truth is—the righteous suffer.
The Lord we serve makes sure it is the good we have done in His name that lives on after us, indeed, that lives forever.
Remember where your springs are found—in the Kingdom of God!
God meets us at the altar of prayer when our hearts become the altar of prayer.
As soldiers of the Light, we must be sure that we do not unconsciously form any alliances with the Darkness.
Through our study of the Word, the Lord shapes our life.
We can only catch tantalizing glimpses of these mysteries, like a small beam of light through a prism.
We are children of His promise, the holy nation camped in peace with Jesus at the center.
We must come before the flame of the Holiness of God in repentance, praise, and worship.
We have an ongoing appointment with the God of the Universe!
The Zeal of the Father’s House is a cleansing force, a purifying process of revolutionized thinking and corrected behavior.
It is practically routine that biblical heroes were reduced to ruins at some point and when they turned to God, he restored them.
He is coming soon in clouds of glory—clouds full of the rain of His goodness and justice.
We blend our voices with the unseen choir of our heritage every time we sing to the Lord.
He blotted them out of the book, the file, the recording, and even His memory.
He cares for us more than He loves the sparrows. Let us be faithful to His house and to His altars of grace today.
There is a solid rock of foundation beneath the squishy, porous pressure pressing on us.
We congregate because the Lord has called us together. The Bible is clear: “Do not stop congregating!”
The curtain in our mind opens and there it is. We get it!
The ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives is to give us direction.
There are strong towers today that guard the peace of the church.
Armies are known to be armed—they carry weapons into battle. It would be foolish not to.
Sometimes unthinking Christians attempt to live the Christian life according to the wisdom of man and not the truth of God.
As we give God the glory due His name, He enables the eyes of our spirit to see Jesus.
The music of worship must be filled with the truth of God and with the testimonies of God’s people.
I see what is happening at Asbury as a generational event that is necessary to the perpetuation of a Christian faith springing from the Bible.
His music took us and started our feet to move and our hearts to sway. Like a child in the sun, we were dancing again.
It is not a secret, nor is it a shame that we have prayed for things and not received them.
Today our musical, spiritual warriors stand idle, for we no longer call them to the battle.
The political enemies of the Church seek to make the general population fear those who are following Jesus by accusing us of being political revolutionaries.
God’s Kingdom was and is bigger than the Roman Empire or any government ever developed by power-hungry men.
Through this joy, we stand out from the people around us who do not follow the Lord.
Every emotion that emanates from the human heart is represented in the Book of Psalms.
The heart of the True Worshiper is a fiery heart burning with a passion for God and for His Kingdom.
If we are not careful, we will spend more time applying scripture to contemporary living than we do telling the Gospel story.
Public worship is a community art that unfolds in time, so the order of such an art is important.
As people made in the image of God, there is a deep desire within each of us for order.
God’s plan for one’s success does not come at the expense of another.
Loving children minister to loving parents like no one else can.
The river’s course is traced by the finger of God.
Public worship can suffer if songs are used that do not do the work of worship.
The holy purpose is to minister to the Lord, giving Him “the glory due His name.
Music is the language of emotions and True Worship requires emotion.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
Regardless of the musical language of a certain people in a particular place and a given time, the music God is listening for is full of truth, revelation, and mystery.
Jesus unites worshipers across any line Satan or man himself can draw.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
The challenge of worshiping in the truth of the Kingdom while living in the culture of the world has faced every church in every land in every age of Christianity.
While the Lord is dealing with each individual worshiper, He is also moving the congregation forward in faith.
In corporate settings, the unity of all the believers singing the same truth at the same time with the same emotion is a vital force in the life of the church.
There is too much at stake in today’s service to be coy with our praise and selfish with our worship.