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 […]
Category: General
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 […]
Lead Us Not…Deliver Us…Forgive Us
I have been reading and studying the Bible for more than fifty years. I have been a Biblicist all that time, never wavering in my belief in a word by word inspiration, an inerrant Bible, and the availability of the original languages that guarantee that we can know what God intended to communicate. I have […]
Quoting God or Submitting to Prophetic Process
Prophetic one-up-manship comes from a flesh or soulish source and diminishes the purity of the revelation. 1. Your attempt to make the way you received the revelation undeniable reveals your need to satisfy a demanding desire. Watch carefully when the prophet needs to add a “you cannot deny this is God” aspect to the revelation. […]
Inspiration, Inerrancy, Intention, and Implementation
“God gave us His inerrancy through the process. God involved Himself in the process from the actual scripting to the end product of preparation to do anything that is good. Paul includes implementation in the inspiration involvement of God.” Dr. Don Lynch Holy Spirit breathed, or God breathed Holy Spirit through the write and into […]
As It is in Heaven
The Conditions Around God The word “circumstance” is a compound word. “Circum” or circle means “what is around you.” “Stance” means “the way things are.” Circumstance means “the way things are around you.” In involved worship and intercession, we rise into the circumstances around the Throne of God and bring the circumstances that surround God […]