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Chapter Two (continued) Who would claim that newcomers to the Pentecostal stream receive the quality and depth of experience that Parham, Bartleman, or Seymour enjoyed when the Azusa revival was at its zenith? When I became a pastor in the early 80s, I sought out a stream to identify the flock with. The Charismatic move […]

Chapter Two Picture Jesus walking in among the multitude of sick folk at Bethesda. The smell of filthy bandages and excrement stung his nostrils. All around him scrawny necks craned pale faces toward the surface of the pool waiting for the troubling of the water. Certainly, he knew what he came to do. He never […]

Chaper One (continued) Discipleship in Christ is a lifelong, all-encompassing involvement of the Spirit of Christ and the principles of the Word of God in each area of your life.  A distinction must be made between Biblical Spirituality and the prevailing Christian religious system. Is the Christ of Christianity the Christ of the Bible? Is […]

Chapter One Twentieth-century Christianity is as far removed from its first-century counterpart as Herodian Judaism in Jesus’ day was from the Temple of Solomon. The Jewish religious system prevalent in Jesus’ time strayed from the pure, vital worship of Jehovah, denigrating into a corrupt, politicized monstrosity. This system flourished under Herod, the Pharisees, and Sadducees, […]

What Adam perpetrated in the fall, bringing man under the curse and losing his God given authority – Jesus in His redemptive act of sacrifice remediated. What Adam lost in the fall through his disobedience, Jesus restores to man by faith in the shed blood of Calvary: [Rom 5:15-19 KJV] 15 But not as the […]

Arriving at God’s Rest: Now we come to the seventh day of God’s process. The seventh day is connected with God’s Sabbath Rest. [Exo 12:16 KJV] 16 And in the first day [there shall be] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work […]

What about man’s disobedience? Is this all the devil’s fault? Are we acquitted by simply declaring, as the comedian Flip Wilson in the 60’s, who famously said “The Devil made me do it?” What about considering the role man’s disobedience in the garden had in opening the door for Satan to become the god of […]

Moving into Authority: In this series of teachings, we are postulating that God not only moves in and by sovereign, independent crisis experiences (one-time events requiring little preparation), He also moves in our lives through deliberative spiritual process that can be learned and applied in every believer’s life. This is why Jesus told the Pharisees […]

Day Five: Be Fruitful and Multiply Why do we have to wait so long before blessing comes? I thought I was ready to pastor a church of a 1000 people when I was 21. Why would I have to wait? Jesus warned His own family members about their poor sense of spiritual timing [Jhn 7:6 […]

Be Fruitful and Multiply: Gen. 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their […]