Maintaining our idea that psychology is the study of what we do and why we do it, we turn attention to the what-we-do. And, we find the why-we-do-it staring us in the face. “Love God with All. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” What we do is measured by God’s expectations and anticipations – […]
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Worship: the Way of Cain
What God Wants Cain brings God what Cain wants God to have. God rejects Cain. God says, “Just bring Me what I ask for, and you will be accepted.” (God rejects Cain, not his offering.) Cain says, “No way. You change; not me.” When he is rejected, Cain attacks and kills the one who is […]
Prophecy: The Error of Balaam
The Balaam Infiltration A prophecy that cannot curse what God has blessed but entices people to unfaithfulness to their calling is called, “the error of Balaam.” “Recruiting prophecy” is the most blatant and common, on display every day, example of the error of Balaam. It is as common as prophecy itself, both in personal prophecy […]
Lawlessness: The Rebellion of Korah
Jude lists the way of Cain, the error of Balaam, and the rebellion of Korah as his way of identifying the infiltration of men “who have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation.” Jude says this behavior and leadership spirit has already been judged and condemned by God. These […]
You Can Be Replaced
“You can be replaced.” The remainder of the discussion will center upon leaders filling empty places. I being with this statement because it applies to every leader as well as the quitters and traitors. Bring yourself to account for your leadership: do you have empty places you refuse to fill? Do not wait for God […]
Seven Reasons the Thyatira Jezebel is Symbolic
“Jesus does not address a specific woman of history named ‘Jezebel’, expose her and her lovers by holding a news conference at her boudoir, have a “kill her children” Sunday morning service for the people to witness a pile of dead infants and children so all the Ecclesiae can find out how to deal with […]
Jesus, The Logos
The Word was with God Jesus has always been. He has no beginning. His role as Son began the moment He received the scroll of the Father’s Eternal Purposes – a prophetic and visionary picture of an eternal condition presented through John in the Revelation of Jesus Christ that helps us picture a spiritual reality. […]
Fathering Leaders: Testing The Leaders You Train as Fathers with Burden-bearing
“Leaders always carry more burdens than their burdens.” Fathering leaders train leaders to father. Fathering leaders carry the burden of fathering, so they must train leaders to bear the burden that fathers carry. That means fathers must decide how much of the burden a leader learning to father can carry without experiencing overload. All leaders […]
Potential and Intention
God’s Intentions Define My Purpose Clay Nash and I were having one of our insightful discussion over some post-conference meeting dining. I was pointing out that my idea that “potential is the greatest enemy of purpose,” and he mentioned that I should include the word “intention” in my discussion. Of course, he read the essentials […]
The Kingdom Leader’s Role in Kingdom Culture
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 […]