Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Wait for it. It is one of the greatest questions of the Bible..."What do you have that you did not receive?"  If you get this right you are a long long way towards the right attitude and affections o…

The evil villain in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters is a gigantic Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.  He's sort of this god of self that destroys NYC.  

Paul warns the Corinthians to not be PUFFED up in favor of …

Wisdom is a tricky thing.  Many proclaim it.  Few have it. Practically, who exactly are we following primarily? What should our relationship be with our leaders be?  Do we even have leaders over us?

W…

If God dwelt among us, would it make any difference?  If God dwelt within us, would anything change?

This is exactly Paul's point today.  God Himself, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, now indwells be…

Is your work fire-ready? Is it ready to be fire-tested?  When it is tested hard, will it be found to have substance, or be burned up and unlasting?  The Bible teaches that not only will people be jud…

The big news is GOD GIVES the GROWTH*. God is the primary mover for both belief and for Christian maturity. The * part is that He sovereignly choses to use humans in this process.

So we must not overs…

If we lay a blanket of spiritual assessment over the Corinthian church's nooks and crannies, what would we find?  For them it was Jealousy and Strife.  But the real problem is spiritual GROWTH.  You …

God wants to impart something to us that the heart of man has not even imagined.  It is beyond category.  We will probably need some help in our 1.5 Kg brains to understand it.  Fortunately, God has …

God gave you the gift of THOUGHT.  He's gonna need it for you to have a relationship with Him.  There is only one problem: His thoughts are so big and wonderful we have cannot understand them. We hav…

The giant of the faith, Paul, describes his actual non-giant-of-the-faith self as WEAK, FEARFUL and TREMBLING.  What?  Why is that?  Well, because that is the way he ACTUALLY was.  It likely is a sta…

Imagine DELIGHTING God today.  He says it is possible.  God takes great pleasure in a person who knows Him experientially; who wrestles and walks with Him a bit.  He delights in someone who then uses…

You are SUPPOSED to stumble over Jesus.  You have to.  Everybody has to.  The current population of the spiritual kingdom is populated by STUMBLERS.  If you think all of Christianity a bit in the rid…

Don't blame me.  Paul said it first.  He said the reality of the cross will seem like folly to those exposed to it.  Our more common word today would be stupid.  He says the truths of God, summarized…

A great question to ask is: Who is the spiritual boss of me?  There are two ways we can get this wrong. 

One is to say that my primary allegiance is to a HUMAN, and not to God Himself.  "I follow Paul…

You know the moment when someone holds out a telephone to you and says, "You have a CALL?" You want to know two things: who is it and what does he want?  Then there is a decision to make: should I an…

Paul loves the Thessalonians.  I do too.  I am going to miss them tomorrow morning.  But before we go geographically down the Macedonian peninsula and chronologically to the Corinthians, we best REME…

Step #1 is to NOTICE. Specifically today, notice WEARINESS in the brothers and sisters around you.  This may help: think of the prisoner, the old, the grieving, the sick, those in relational crisis, …

If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.  This concept effects two groups of people.

First is the unwilling non-worker.  The risk here is that they fall into idleness and then into busybodin…