What the enemy is so gifted in is his plying us with lie after lie clothed as truth, thereby leading us from mirage to mirage, and then like thirsty foreign legionnaires we fall with our mouths in the sand as we stagger from dune to dune dying from unquenched thirst for truth. We then end […]
A burning passion for the lost became all consuming! Top priority! Jesus left the ninety-nine for the one lost sheep. The ninety-nine were not his major! Never have been! Once you join the sheepfold, you are demoted to second place. No one likes being put into a minor role. It is difficult, and for some […]
The “View Chuck Day” couldn’t come quickly enough for me. It would be the “Chuck Back From The Dead” unveiling. I was by this time somewhat ashamed of my skepticism which had not by any means totally gone away. But I was not about to follow my good friend into strange terrain, and I had […]
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 […]
Note from Bob: I am so stirred and blessed to be able to present with his permission Bruce Well’s powerfully relevant teaching series entitled “Flocking Away From The Church.” It is a poignant, urgent and potent series of teachings that is prayerfully applied cross-denominationally and internationally. Bruce is a gifted Bible teacher, speaker, writer […]