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In my last blog I talked about this scripture from 1 Corinthians: “For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,
Intercessors are the type A administrative assistants of God, right? They have lists upon lists and pray day and night without a breath of silence, right? Actually, the best intercessory times I’ve personally seen, never had a list at all. They weren’t conducted like a business
What a person eats becomes a part of them, therefore in many religious teachings what is unclean or unholy, when ingested, has the ability to make the whole person unholy. What a person touches, who they associate with, day in and day out, has the
In a discussion with the disciples Jesus says, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses permitted divorce, but from the beginning, it was not so.” So, In the Law, divorce is allowed, but it breaks God’s heart when the only end to conflict is
I was raised in church. Ever since I was a teenager, if you’d asked me what the gospel is, I’d have given you an accurate recitation of protestant doctrine about “salvation by faith in Christ alone, not based on any works I do or don’t
In an earlier blog I said, “Prayer is how we approach God.” Well, what you believe about God often determines how you approach. People tend to think that prayer is asking God for things. And to be fair in the old Shakespearean English “I
In Genesis 2 God plants the garden of Eden and puts in it trees that are “pleasing to the eye and good for food.” In Genesis 3 after talking with the serpent, Eve looks at the forbidden tree and “sees” that it is “pleasing to
Let’s say that the tithe tests how basic you are, how reactive you are to material concerns. This next test asks, “how acidic are you?” What is your threshold for fire? The test is Jesus’ question in the garden of Gethsemane the night He was
A litmus test measures the ph of a solution. You dip a paper strip into the solution and depending on the color the strip turns you know how acidic or alkaline the solution is. There are two instructions in scripture that I think act as a
