Spiritual Warfare – deliverance or discipline
Posted March 20th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
We like quick fixes. It gets easy to blame our problems on a demon and hope for the magic prayer that will make our demons go away. One of the amazing phenomena in American Christianity has been the growth of deliverance ministries, a litany of so called prophets and exorcists who can deliver you from […]
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Spiritual Warfare – Our enemies: The world
Posted March 14th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
1 John 2:15-16 (ESV) 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the […]
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Spiritual warfare – battling the flesh
Posted March 6th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
Followers of Jesus continually battle three enemies, the flesh, the world, and the devil. We’ve looked at the Devil, and the fallen angelic beings that wage war against us. The second enemy is something within that continually pushes back against the purpose of God and the new person that one becomes because of the indwelling […]
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Spiritual Warfare – Our enemy, the devil
Posted March 3rd, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” — C. S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters In our warfare, the enemies we face include the devil, the […]
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Spiritual warfare – Christ our victory
Posted February 28th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard
This is the first of a series of blog posts I will write in the next week or so in a plan to develop some of the thoughts I raised and give Scriptural support for the role of spiritual warfare in the life of faith. “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of […]
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