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. […]
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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 […]
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. […]