When the Lord awakens you in the middle of the night with a persistent word that is repeated over and over to your spirit ears, rather than trying to fall asleep which I could not, one had better get up and seek the Lord for His confirmation and intention. I heard the words again 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 […]
The first of these questions has interrogated my mind for years to this very day. The second question frightens me, because people are people, and religious people are religious people. What one is capable of, we all are capable of. Of course, we will never grasp the answers to the first question in its deepest […]
5. JESUS GETS DEEP UNDER THE SKIN It all goes much deeper than the traditional explanation that we have just examined to sufficiently understand the Jewish loathing of Jesus, valid as that argument seems to be. Haven’t you ever heard somebody say of someone else, “He’s really starting to get under my skin!” In other […]