Q&A – Renewing Our Minds – Introduction to Gardening
RENEWING OUR MINDS – INTRODUCTION, GARDENING Key concepts: Seeds, Gardening ORIGINAL WEB SITE INQUIRY - We had received another cry for help in this month’s emails. A dear sister who has been battling obsessive, condemning, out of control thoughts asks how, or even...
Do You Have Oil in Your Lamp?
This is an important question for all disciples-in-training to consider. In other meditations, we contrasted ‘Headless’ humans (those who run their own lives) with disciples who have come under the absolute authority and provision of God’s Living Word (Yeshua) and are...
Disciples Are ‘Aliens’ (Part 2)
You’ve no doubt heard the old adage, “What you don’t know, won’t hurt you.” But what if that time-honored bit of ‘worldly wisdom’ is a lie? If lies are repeated endlessly, people mindlessly start believing them. That draws them into a dangerous state of delusion. But...
Disciples Are ‘Aliens’ (Part 1)
After our Lord ascended to Heaven and gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to His disciples, He gave tremendous spiritual authority to His apostle Peter. And that gives great weight to Peter’s teachings and epistles. He wrote his first epistle to all Jewish and non-Jewish...
The Arena of Testimony
Imagine what would go through your mind if a law officer served you with a summons ordering you to appear as a witness in a widely-publicized, high stakes court trial. Suddenly your life would be invaded by a hard legal reality you would not be able to escape. No...
Naked Before God
Genesis 3:7-11 “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his...
The Portal in the Wilderness
1 John. 2:14a “I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning…” When we ponder Abraham’s life and significance, it’s important to realize that he is part of each disciple’s life, and each disciple is a part of his! We must not see...
Why God Sets Disciples Apart (Part 2)
Despite how wicked, brutal and dangerous our world is, God doesn’t want us to be dismayed or overwhelmed by it. In fact, through the apostle Paul, God commands us to do the opposite! Philippians 4:4-9 “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your...
Why God Sets Disciples Apart (Part 1)
In the Bible, God continually separates what comes from and aligns with His Word, from what does not. It begins in Gen. 1:4 when God separates the Light from the Darkness. Then He separates Adam and Eve from their 'fig leaf covering' and clothes them with animal...
The Big Surprise
(Written originally in July, 2003) Luke 17:24-27 “For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this...
Our Utterly Perfect God
God reveals through His Creation and through various Scripture texts that His nature is utterly PERFECT! There is no flaw in His character or His wisdom, knowledge, deeds and almighty creative power. No one can justly accuse Him of any wrong doing. He is infinitely...
How Sin Must Be Mastered
In chapter 3 of John’s Gospel, an influential, highly-placed Israelite, named Nicodemus, came by night to visit Rabbi Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth. Nicodemus was a member of Israel’s national ruling body, the Sanhedrin - an appointed, highly respected spiritual leader...
Training Disciples for ‘Show Time’
Place yourself in the following scenarios: Suddenly you are accosted by a desperate, armed, drug addict ready to do whatever it takes, to get money for his next ‘fix’… Someone you love with all your heart develops a potentially fatal disease… The economy you depend on...