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Prison as prep
An excerpt from my devotional, Greater is He. Order a paperback or ebook here: https://a.co/d/bp5gIwx
The power of God
I will be posting here some videos of me reading from my new devotional, “Greater is He.” Here is one called, The Power of God. I hope you like it. Order a copy today on Amazon! https://a.co/d/6aUpPHi
Being set apart
Christ calls us to be holy. We cannot manufacture holiness on our own. No way, no how. There is no action, no mantra, no position, no words, no anything that can make us holy. So why would Jesus tell us to be something that we cannot be? Enter Holy Spirit. To be holy means to be set apart. But how? For whom? For what? Set apart can mean, for some, to be separate from the world, separate from others; kind of like being an oddball, a square peg in a round-hole world. But Jesus was not a recluse and He was entirely holy. Jesus was engaged in teaching, healing, performing miracles, eating, drinking, "doing life," as we call it these days, fully and completely. But it was never an outside-in job. He was acting from the Spirit of God in Him, inside-out. Christians can be tempted to think that acquiring holiness is something they need to "do" on the outside, like give up something (sinful habits), or do certain things more (go to church more). Bu...
Jesus was polarizing
When truth is spoken, those living in lies and darkness are offended by it. Jesus called people out on their stuff. He did not show up on this earth to condemn it, but to love and save it. However, by speaking the truth (He was and is the Truth), He ruffled some feathers, to put it mildly. What did Jesus speak? For one, He told us that the only way to God was through Himself. The Pharisees were deeply troubled and offended by this for many reasons. For starters, they were jealous of Jesus. Jesus had a following. But in the religious leaders' eyes, His followers weren't the "right" people. They held no status. Many were downright sinful, awful human beings in their eyes. But Jesus set the Pharisees straight on their judgmental standards. He points out that they were actually the ones in danger of the fire of hell. In their pride and self-righteousness, they were digging their own pits of self-destruction, though they thought the...