What is wine? What is the wineskin? What is the vineyard? What is the result of this metaphoric reference when coupled with putting new cloth into an old garment? The first point of Jesus concerns loss. He says both the old wineskin and the old garment will be destroyed by the introduction of new wine […]
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When the Forbidden Seems Sexy?
Ask yourself why the forbidden is sexy. Marriage and faithfulness are the most empowering of all sensual experiences reaching even to the ultimate of spirit, soul, and body oneness. It is the image of God in humanity. It is the highest of all in terms of personal spiritual experience, and the most fundament relational dynamic […]
Honor My Voice
My good friend, Clay Nash, says, “If you honor me, honor my values.” Powerful words! When I heard him say them the first time, I felt them as much as I heard them. At that moment, I was listening to Clay Nash as a representative of Jesus of Nazareth, not only as my good friend. […]
What Gets Your Harvest?
When you reap the harvest of your breakthrough, the one that cost you endurance, submission, suffering, and, sometimes, years of faithfulness to your assignment, where do you invest that harvest? When you experience breakthrough, the opportunists will seek you out. The kingdom of God has some hangers-on who make book negotiating with faithful inheritors about […]
Christianity Without a Bible
The rise of a homosexual Presidential candidate has done what I predicted it would do: namely, change the subject of the campaign from socialism – a divisive and drop-dead loser for Democrats without a national leader – to the heart and faith foundations of our culture. Mayor Pete kissing his partner (I’m aware they are […]
Kingdom Success and Failure
Jesus describes how the kingdom of God works. His purpose is to address the capacity of people to produce the “what Father wants” from invested seed. We should plan for success but expect to deal with failure. According to Jesus, comparing His perspective of “How Things Really Work in the Spirit” with modern American church-anity, […]
The Accelerated Activities of Providence in Awakening
The Roaring Twenties are almost here. Dutch Sheets shares with us that we have entered a time of acceleration. Knowing that God is behind this new pacesetting leads us to “behold” Providence. (I use that word in the broadest Biblical sense even though we do not use “lo” and “behold” as Father, angels, and Jesus […]
Reformation Time is Here!
Reforming the Reformers What happens when God wants to reform the reformers? The initial forms of reform always demand the next step in reformation, but the initializing leaders have a very difficult time moving from protest into progress. Having fought with all they have for the initialization, they continue fighting the battle they already won. […]
Kingdom Culture Series: Rearing Godly Children
Rearing godly children is not the responsibility of the state, government, or the general society. It does not take a village! Rearing godly children is first the responsibility of fathers (surprised you that I didn’t say “mothers,” huh?). Rearing godly children comes from one man marrying one woman, staying together in oneness at some level, […]
The Expert in Kingdom Culture: A Storehouse of Old and New
We poorly interpret and apply the metaphoric sense of old wine and new wine, old wine containers, and new wine containers. We end up exaggerating the metaphor to the point of negating the revelation in part or the whole. The point of a metaphor is the point we should get, not our subsequent extension of […]