Our Identity in Christ

There are numerous wonderful things that take place when we are spiritually born again. However, the focus of this paper will be on just one of them.  The moment we are placed into Christ, we become one with Him and are assigned a new identity.  This is what I want to...

Re-Defining how we think about Ministry

Ministry is one of the most commonly used words we hear in the church world.  Check the web page of any evangelical church, and they list; children’s ministry, women’s ministry, high school ministry, music ministry, men’s ministry, etc.  They are...

Intimacy with Jesus

Approximately,  forty years ago, I started a non-scientific, but very enlightening survey.  I first asked my pastor and later dozens of evangelical pastors some version of the following question: “What percentage of your church is experiencing intimacy with Jesus?” ...

God’s Forgiveness, Partial or Complete?

We enthusiastically tell the world that if they receive Jesus, all their sin will be forgiven and God will remember it no more.  In fact, scripture goes further when it says if we surrender our life to Jesus, the record that would have condemned us is completely...

Freedom in Christ

 Freedom is a treasured concept and an important word in our vocabulary.  We use it in a variety of ways including; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, political freedom, financial freedom, etc., etc.  Each of these is wonderful, but history...

The Evolution of My View of Prayer

My father was a pastor, so I was raised in a good evangelical church that valued prayer.  We prayed to start and end everything, and our language included phrases like “prayer warrior,” “fasting and prayer” and “Wednesday night prayer...