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Resolutions and the “Empty House” Syndrome

January 12, 2025

How to Fill Your Life with That Which Calls Forth the Power of the Holy Spirit

January 19, 2025

"'When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings...

The Pharisee: Deluded and Deadening Self-Effort

January 26, 2025

"'Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.' While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him to dine with him,...

Combating the Leaven of the Pharisees

February 2, 2025

"In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, 'Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will...

Delighting in the Fear of the Lord

February 23, 2025

"'I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!...

The Fear of God

March 2, 2025

"'I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him!...

Walking in the Fear of the Lord

March 9, 2025

"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the...

Abba, Father, Laden Fear

March 16, 2025

"Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy,...

Apprehending, Stripping Off, and Tasting

March 23, 2025

"So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good."  1 Peter 2:1-3The launchpad for ongoing discipleship (v.1-12)....

The Living Stone and Living Stones

March 30, 2025

"So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living...

Living as Called, Joyful, and Responsible Disciples

April 6, 2025

"So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living...

The Kingdom Proclaimed from a Donkey

April 13, 2025

"And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, 'Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will...