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The Mystery of Preaching

Posted on November 3, 2023Leave a comment

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead [b]at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

2 Timothy 4:1-2 NKJV

I have preached God’s Word for over 45 years now. I started at 19 years old and through an amazing string of events, doors were opened to me that only God could open. That said, those early sermons were raw, unpolished, and admittedly less than stellar biblical expositions. Those messages would be rightly evaluated as simple, superficial, and shallow. I plead guilty. God truly manifested I Corinthians 1:27-29, by using the epitome of a foolish, weak, and simple young man…

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…