Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther led us out of the dominating leadership paradigm of Roman Catholicism. Instead of producing a New Testament form of kingdom leadership, however, the protesters or Protestants, developed their manmade government structures to guarantee that they would never fall back into a papal dictatorship again. They did not visit the […]
Category: General
Your Existing Root System
How should we understand “the cares of life” and “the deceitfulness of riches” as an existing root system that chokes the Word so that It does not produce what it was sown to produce? Jesus says this system exists before the seed falls upon this otherwise rich soil. This soil is producing something already, but […]
Personal Leadership and Kingdom Leadership: My Ultimate for His Priorities
You can recognize Oswald Chamber’s famous “My Utmost for His Highest” in the title, and he meant by that what I mean mine. I apply this idea to the process that produces the ultimate kingdom leader. We live in a power-point moment in which the greatest kingdom leaders of all history should be alive, well, […]
Ten Reasons Elders Are Fivefold Kingdom Leaders
The word “elder” is the same in working definition as “bishop.” Oversight is the job description. Expertise and experience are the qualities of the person given oversight. The eldering leader may have another identifying ministry, leadership role, and kingdom function, but he called as one of the five kingdom leadership dynamics that Paul says Jesus […]
Marriage Is To Be Honored by Everyone
Honoring marriage is more than an internal, individual, and intimate issue. It is everybody’s business whether or not you honor marriage. If you are a kingdom citizen, you are accountable to the entire kingdom culture for the condition of your marriage. That said, there are all kinds of help available in the kingdom to secure […]
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 […]
Kingdom Culture and Reformation
Talking Kingdom Culture I have been preaching, teaching, and writing about kingdom culture now for twenty years. The reference points to “kingdom culture” were pretty sparse when I started. They are increasing in influence as we approach the Roaring Twenties and the New Era Reformation. I am not saying that I am the source of […]