Give No Quarter and Make No Provision
Spiritual Warfare, it is a reality of life whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. Often spiritual warfare is misconstrued. We are tempted to either give the devil too much credit or not to acknowledge that real spiritual warfare exists at all. Giving the devil too much credit usually occurs in one of two ways, …
Wives, Pray Your Husbands Up
I’ll never forget the day. I was a broken man. I had no reason to be broken, I had just baptized eight people, our sanctuary was packed to the gills, the Holy Spirit spoke convincingly during my sermon, people responded by repenting of sin, and we had new families join the church. By all normal accounts, …
Sword Fighting
For the past several weeks I’ve been posting our family’s verse of the week. I was asked yesterday on Facebook whether we memorized it or talked about it during the week. The answer is both. We memorize it, talk about it, and engage in other Bible reading that is related to the verse. We are …
Monday Musings
Don’t let your urges scare you. let them instead drive you to pray for the wisdom to see what you were created to be and to do. Watch the triggers in your life that lead you to hunger for what you want, and be warned. But in the meantime seek to direct your appetites toward …
The Devil Is In The Details
I’m a big picture guy. This is good in some ways, I’m able to usually put pieces together quickly and understand big ideas. I am terrible with details. I need others to proof-read and edit my work. In my last church, my pastor was so often holding me accountable for the “details” of ministry, that …
Hating Sin
Some things in the Bible are easier to read and talk about than they are to put into practice. Hatred of sin is one of those things. I have little difficulty in hating your sin, but when it comes to my sin, I’m often attached. In fact, when it comes to my sin, I am often blind …
The Difficult Discipline of Discernment
“For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the …
Trust Not in the Armor, but in the God of the Armor
There is a tendency for people to use the Bible as a book of spells, incantations, or magic words. In fact, even believers can often be guilty of doing this very thing. There is the belief by many that simply reciting the right words in the right order will yield results. In his classic monster …
Spiritual Warfare in the Home: The Struggle For Leadership
This first sin, struck at the very heart of the family beginning with the role reversal that led to the struggle for leadership. Rather than leading his wife, Adam stood by and allowed his wife to lead him. The leadership scenario, however, did not result in a closer walk with God, but instead in separation …