Freedom should look like freedom. Jesus said this: John 8:31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (ESV) This is was during a discussion about how He…
Sometimes I feel like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory. I look around and see what the enemy has been doing and I am trying to prove the conspiracy and people look at me like I am crazy or something. As an example the religious obsession with sin has so distorted our understanding of what Jesus…
Sometimes you have one of those divine days. You look back and see God’s fingers all over it. Of course He is there all the time, but I feel like He gives us opportunities to grow. I don’t understand the spiritual conversations or rules governing encounters or any of that stuff. We have examples like…
I was thinking about why there seems to be all this schizophrenic, bi-polar, old-versus-new reasoning when it comes to understanding the nature of God. To every born-again child of God, it is clear that Jesus is love and is God’s expression of love. Jesus came to reveal the true nature of God to us. When we…
“So Lance I read your last post and I think you missed this scripture: 1 John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” Ok, not a real question from a reader but I thought it might come up eventually so here we go!! We have to see God…
In a number of posts now I have talked about how God is all about relationship. In “Spoons and Steaks” and “More steak please” we saw how the law is not a means for justification because the law is the wrong tool and justification is relational not behavioral. Simply said the law is the wrong utensil…
God’s justice is not fair. It really isn’t. Now that I have your attention…Let’s see if we can “see” justice differently. What does Godly Justice look like? Did you know that my problem is God’s problem. My issues are God’s issues. My sinning is God’s opportunity. Rom 5:8 but God shows his love for us in…
In the last post I talked about how the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. He is our great “cheerleader” reminding us of how amazing our Father is. He is looking deep into our innermost secret place to pull out our most private and guarded desires, hurts, pains, disappointments and every skeleton we want to hide from…
Gal 2:16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will…
Rom 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. (ESVST) The law cannot make anyone right with God. We need to understand that He is right with us period. All he wants is our love. All he wants is…
