Early in my seminary days we were assigned one entire summer as interns to minister and learn ministry at the side of a superb, visionary servant of God by the name of Pastor Paul Veenstra in the Chula Vista Christian Reformed Church of Chula Vista California. It was an awesome summer of being discipled by […]
THE BAR EXPEDITION It was too late now. I was on the way. No matter that this was Pastor Skunkhollow’s idea, I was guilty of complicity in the endeavor. That means I was an accomplice, and the only way to get that off my ecclesiastical rap sheet was for him to stop the car and […]
I come from from a very strong religious background as well as an airtight, vacuum-packed doctrinal system. With a strict Calvinistic theological training, I graduated from Calvin College and Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan about ten thousand dollars in debt but without a penny’s worth of understanding of the supernatural power of God, the Holy […]
As we watched the three desert streams make their exuberant way home from church in our very close knit community, I must confess that some pride rose up within me. You know how it goes, like look what my ministry has wrought! I now had my first three salvation notches on my gospel gun, the […]
God is the ultimate and the quintessential Giver. He is “The Giving God.” It is the nature of God to give. Nobody comes close to giving like God gives! Nobody comes close to giving as much as God gives. Nobody comes close to the continuance of giving as God continues to give. He is the […]
9. THE SCAFFOLDING THEORY (Continued From November, 2008 Whole Truth Help) The third reason that my boyhood background gave for the contention that the gifts of the Holy Spirit no longer exist today is that they were temporary scaffolding. That is about as accurately as I can state it. It wasn’t expressed that literally, but […]
13. HOLY SPIRIT’S GIFTS – ESSENTIAL BUILDING TOOLS The “Scaffolding Theory” is bogus for another reason. Secondly, because the Divine Builder and His fellow laborers are still busy building Christ’s Church, the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit are not now and never have been temporary scaffolding, but rather are the ongoing essential tools of […]
There are many churches and pastors who talk a lot about church growth these days. What often do they mean? They are referring to CHURCH GROWTH by the BIG BANG THEORY. You know the EVOLUTIONARY BIG BANG THEORY don’t you? Well, evolutionists tell us that matter is eternal, and at a certain point, matter got […]
The Bible reveals to us: “THE LIVING GOD.” That was the Apostle Peter’s famous, much preached, often debated, as well as his supernaturally revealed and imparted confession of Jesus Christ in Matthew 16:15, the words of which we all know well: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the LIVING GOD.”
Oh how the heathen press and the apostate church get their ire and fire burning and their smokestacks smoking, as they immediately attack any minister of God who makes a comment about God rolling up His sleeve and baring His arm of judgment against the great wickedness of peoples, cities or nations on planet earth. […]
The Bible unequivocally states in Ephesians 1:11 that God, “…works ALL THINGS after the counsel of His will.” This simply means that in all things in the Christian’s life, and difficult as they may sometimes be, there is a Divine plot being carried out in the drama of our lives. It is there if we […]
It wasn’t planned that way! But then again, when is it? For me, the old year didn’t say goodbye with a twinkle in its eye and a smile on its face. Oh no, for me old-man 2009 went out with a sneer on his face and some last machine-gun words of disdain and defiance. His […]
