Freedom through resistance.
God’s original design for every human being was to live in freedom. In the garden of Eden, there was only one stated prohibition; don’t eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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God’s original design for every human being was to live in freedom. In the garden of Eden, there was only one stated prohibition; don’t eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Spiritual warfare isn’t something entered into by only a few elite spiritual special forces who can defeat the enemy in prayer. Spiritual warfare is a corporate activity that includes every believer, whether conscious of it or not.
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Jesus said we cannot plunder the strong man unless we first bind the strong man. In the grand historical-redemptive picture, I believe Jesus spoke of his life, death, and resurrection that defeated Satan and his minions, thus allowing sinful humans to be set free, i.e., plundered from Satan’s kingdom of darkness. I also believe there is a more localized application
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Everybody has a worldview. Even if you don’t know what a worldview is. In simple, non-technical terms, your worldview is how you see and interpret the world around you and in you. A definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary says it is a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. Your worldview is a creature of your mind. What you think and what you believe about the world around you and about yourself.
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Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God,...
Read MoreChrist first came into my life at the age of 5 during a series of evangelistic meetings in our tiny country Quaker church house in Gate, Oklahoma. Since then it has been a process of “Stumbling forward by grace, through faith in Christ.” I experienced a significant personal revival at the age of 19 and have been much in love with the Lord ever since…five decades-plus.
My passion is to enjoy the Lord by encouraging others to make progress in their lives…living life successfully. I do that primarily through my disciple-making efforts and through my writing.
I spent about 20 years in public ministry and at the age of 40 decided that I had allowed my passion for ministry to impede my prior duty to my family, so I stepped aside. I found a new career as a financial advisor and now make my living serving my financial planning clients.
I now consider myself to be a bi-vocational minister of the gospel.