Christmastime is an unparalleled opportunity to spread the gospel all over the world. In doing so we can correct all the misunderstandings especially about the etymology of some of the words that pertain to Christianity. There is nothing quite like Christmastime to act as real honest to goodness Christians and love our fellow man, woman, and child. Oh, and by the way, it is the time of year that people who otherwise never even imagine the possibility that there is a vibrant, valid spiritual realm, replete with God and His ever-expanding Kingdom, to look around and see its promises fulfilled everywhere!
Robin Starbuck
Monthly Archives: December 2015
If “AT ALL” then “TO ALL”
You ARE righteous in the eyes of God. You ARE holy. You ARE perfect. Therefore, this ends ALL religious struggles between you and God. It ends the need to attempt to resolve a problem already resolved for you and for all people. This has been imputed to us. The resolution has been imputed. And this resolution does not involve you. Just like the characters in a story that have gone through the climax, we are now experiencing the wonderful catharsis of its conclusion! Just as God never asked us to participate in being made a sinner, he also never asked us to participate in this “New Covenant.”He asked no other person to become a participant. Your involvement was prohibited and it never required your agreement or involved your will. You didn’t have to “believe”in Adam. You didn’t have to “know”about Adam. It didn’t make any difference if you knew about Adam or not—God imputed the sin of unbelief to ALL. If God imputed sin to all, not only would it have to be God who imputes righteousness, he would have to impute it to all. If righteousness is imputed at all, it must be imputed to all.
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
ONE:
The gospel according to Mike
Here is a radical truth that would get me kicked out of most churches: Sin is not an issue with God! The Lord isn’t waiting for us to ask Him to forgive us of our sins. The sins of the entire world—past, present, and future—have already been forgiven. Even a man like Adolf Hitler had grace extended to him! Jesus loved Hitler and paid for his sins just as He did for yours and mine. God is no respecter of persons (Rom. 2:11).
God has already done His part; it is now up to you to receive the truth by faith and make it a reality in your life. Amen!
Andrew Wommack
MH
Read the Bible through “Jewish” eyes
SOME PRINCIPLES FOR BIBLE INTERPRETATION
It is sometimes difficult for modern readers to grasp the idea that Westerners think differently and read literature differently from how the ancient Hebrews did. How many times have we heard it said: The Bible says what it means and means what it says!”? I have had numerous people object, strenuously, to my insistence that we read the Bible through “Jewish” eyes, with an understanding of their culture, their world-view, their literature. I mean, after all, the Bible was written by “Jews” to Jews, about Jewish promises. 17 Does it not make sense to honor that context?
Don K. Preston D. Div.
THE END OF THE LAW
Torah To Telos:
The Passing of The Law of Moses
“Not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law until it is all fulfilled”
Mat 5:17-18
Looking for a Good Teacher/Pastor?
The moment you put one teacher or pastor on a pedestal you’ve proven that that person is not worthy of such calling – or at least that your powers of discernment are awry!
IF A TEACHER IS NOT TEACHING YOU TO QUESTION EVERYTHING, INCLUDING HIMSELF, THEN HE’S NOT A TEACHER AT ALL.
A real teacher doesn’t exploit impressionable minds by saying anything but “Follow me only as far as I follow Christ!” Teach your students HOW to do their own thinking, discerning and decision-making. It’s no feather in your bonnet, oh lofty teacher, to grab your followers by their minds and get them to do your bidding. Teach them that the unfailing power to make perfect decisions lies with God, Who happens to be within THEM !!
Bible students should never be seduced away from doing their own thinking: their own God-aligned thinking is what can – and will – save the world! How? With the full power of God (not you) on their side, they will learn HOW TO recognize God’s voice within them. They won’t be preoccupied with all the warring methodologies out there that are vying for attention, but will recognize that to be a real teacher THEY need to sever their allegiance to you and become themself a Teacher Trainer.
Followers need to be encouraged – not discouraged – to break new ground courageously by studying out the new findings of highly qualified Bible scholars, rather than huddle around their leader (you). The Kingdom is advancing: let those impressionable minds who would sooner follow you off a cliff – let them know that they must take their learning beyond you, into the thirtieth century and beyond – way, way beyond!
Out of traditional rationalistic unbelief
I have personally seen many supernatural things over a period of 30 years, and I continue to see the supernatural on a regular basis! In short, I have been so dislocated out of traditional rationalistic unbelief through countless supernatural experiences that I am now 100% convinced that Jesus is real and that the Bible is true.
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth
Phil Mason
Experienced significant visions
I have seen a man who has never walked before get up out of his wheelchair unaided and walk across the room for the first time in his life! I have heard angelic choirs and supernatural musical instruments being played during times of intense glory-filled worship. I have experienced significant visions and dreams from God. I have met people who have been physically transported instantaneously over great distances, just like Philip in the book of Acts.
Phil Mason
Quantum Glory
To activate, step out in faith
As with all gifts of the Holy Spirit, we must step out in faith to activate the gift. For example, while the Holy Spirit will sometimes move sovereignly to heal someone, most of the time we must engage our faith. Jesus often commanded an act of obedience in order to activate faith for healing. For example, He said, “Go and show yourself to the priest,”“Go wash the mud from your eyes,”or “Pick up your bed and walk.”In each case, physical healing occurred after the person responded in faith by obeying the command. When the Holy Spirit gives a prophetic word, we must take part by cooperating with the Spirit and delivering the word. When you act in faith, you are stepping over into the things of the Kingdom realm—healing, prophecy, miracles, discerning of spirits, and so on. I don’t see in the spirit realm all the time, but I can activate my faith, and I know that the Holy Spirit will meet my faith, and the gift of discerning of spirits will operate through me.
Jonathan Welton
The School of the Seers
Spirit realm far more real than physical realm
Many have stated that the spirit realm is just as real as the physical realm; this is in fact a huge understatement. The truth is that the spirit realm is far more real than the physical realm. In fact, if you were to die this very second while reading this book, you would immediately be dwelling in the spirit realm. You are one heartbeat away from existing entirely in the spirit realm. Yet some live their entire lives denying the existence of the spirit realm.
Dr. Jonathan Welton
The School of the Seers
Building blocks of God
The exquisite mathematical fine tuning within the quantum field strongly suggests that the building blocks of matter are in fact the product of the mind of God and not the product of pure random chance.
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth
Phil Mason
You’re ready! . Right here! . Right now!
I guarantee you the gospel is not going to stand back and wait to see whether or not you are at a certain place in life or growing spiritually or in prayer before the gospel embraces you. The gospel embraces you exactly where you are. Where you are in the gospel is where you are. It’s not where you ought to be. It is where you are.
Don’t move. Please, don’t move. Just let the gospel embrace you. Right here, right now.
ONE: the gospel according to Mike
MICHAEL WILLIAMS