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IRREPLACEABLE?

Posted on October 3, 2023Leave a comment

And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.”

I Samuel 15:27-28

The fifteenth chapter of I Samuel needs to be carefully read and absorbed by every leader. It is basically the unraveling of King Saul.

The chapter is too detailed to explore every lesson one might extract from these verses, but the synopsis might be labeled, “Everybody is replaceable…including kings”.

What language did Peter preach in? (Acts 2:14ff)

Posted on September 27, 2023Leave a comment

In a previous post asked this question because I have pondered and studied for years the dynamics of the Acts 2 outpouring. I need to give some context to my question as to why this might even be important.

I started my journey with Jesus in non-Pentecostal and non-charismatic circles. I could say that at the time it was “anti-Pentecostal” and gave no quarter to certain manifestations, especially the concept of unknown tongues. I tell you that because I sat in graduate school under that perspective and scholarship. So, I come at this from an academic foundation that teaches when the disciples were baptized with the Spirit, they supernaturally received the ability to speak in a KNOWN language not of their own. I have read Acts 2, what seems like thousands of times (maybe embellishment), and that interpretation has never answered all my questions or satisfied certain mysteries for me. For example:

Something New about Vision

Posted on September 21, 2023Leave a comment

“Then He brought him (Abram) outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.””

Genesis 15:5 NKJV

Vision…

How many books have been read, sermons heard and delivered, and conference sessions attended over just this subject?

Can anything more be said?

I guess I’ll try…

It’s time to move on…

Posted on September 14, 2023Leave a comment

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,”

Philippians 3:13 NKJV

Some one needs to hear this…

It’s time to move on…

Like most people, I have experienced my fair share of challenges in 64 years of life, 45 years of being a Christ follower, 44 years of preaching the Gospel, 35 years of local church pastoring, and 5 years of pastoring pastors…

Dealing with Tongues…again. (Part 5 Conclusion)

Posted on September 1, 2023Leave a comment

“How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.”

I Corinthians 14:26-33 NKJV

This will be the last installment on Paul’s treatment of tongues within the Corinthian Church.