The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from Winning with Wisdom Volume 2 book (Pearls of Wisdom for Your Next Right Decision) In Celebration of Mother's Day this month...
In this unique hour let’s make sure we shut the front door! Over the last few months we have shared with you the key verses for this series: John 5:14 “Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come on you.” I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom he may devour.” John 14:30 “Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of this world comes and has nothing in me.” ...
A large ministry organization here in the States has recently had a number of adulterous situations amongst quite a few pastors within their membership. They are walking them through a restoration process. Within this process they wanted to discover the root cause of these adulterous affairs so as to help prevent these situations in the future. To their surprise, they discovered that throughout many of these adulterous affairs it was something very small that opened the door to something very big! These situations began through a woman simply fixing a shirt collar for her pastor or lightly touching one another’s hands...
The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from my latest book MENTOR (A Father's Guide to Mentoring His Son) Teaching Nugget: INTIMACY...
Over the last few months we have been sharing how to "Shut the Front Door" to the enemy in your life! A few weeks ago we began to share “Six Entry Exhibits”: Worry (I Pet. 5:5-8) Internalized anger (Eph. 4:26-27) Strife (James 3:14-16) Last week we shared...
What gets your attention…gets you! What you continually mind, you will eventually find. It’s time we shut the front door to the enemy! Let’s talk about it! Over the last few months we have shared with you the key verses for this series: John 5:14 “Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come on you.” I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom he may devour.” John 14:30 “Hereafter I will not...
Over a decade ago we had a wonderful young man at Joy Church. He played the keyboard and was incredibly talented. He was also extremely intelligent. Because of his very high level of intelligence he had many questions about the Bible. He would listen to arguments that intellectual atheists would make against the Bible, and it began to slowly erode his confidence in God’s Word. Finally he set up an appointment with me with all of his questions in tow. I think I spent over two hours with him answering all of his questions. He told me that the answers I...
The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from my latest book MENTOR (A Father's Guide to Mentoring His Son) Teaching Nugget: INTEGRITY...
Over the past few weeks we have been sharing with you some entry points the devil endeavors to use as cracks in the doors of our life. If we can identify these, we can shut these doors tightly and thereby cut off his access points to us. “Six Entry Exhibits”: Worry (I Pet 5:5-8) Worry is simply pulling tomorrow’s clouds over today’s sunshine! Y 2. Internalized anger (Eph. 4:26-27) Anger that is internalized eventually becomes wrath that is verbalized! Communication disarms the devil. The devil has a hard time hiding in a place called communication! Shut the front door! ...
Before we jump back into our series let's review...