Spiritual Warfare – deliverance or discipline
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 […]
St. Patrick – one of Christianities greatest missionaries.
March 17 is the annual celebration of all that is green, as we celebrate Irish heritage, even though most of us are not Irish. But what the heck, it is an opportunity to drink green beer, right? Though we celebrate a day bearing St. Patrick’s name, most of us do not know anything about who […]
Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Friday the 13th. What do these movies conjure up in your mind? In some way or form, your probably think of the idea of fear. Horror movies play on our fears. Why? Because we know that girl on the screen is about to get it. You know how it happens. […]
Spiritual Warfare – Our enemies: The world
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 […]
Devotions in the book of Proverbs – Introduction
Starting a new book of the Bible with the devotional blogs. Usually, I post about one of these a week as part of our effort to encourage people to read the Bible for themselves and find application to life. Starting next week we will use the Old Testament book of Proverbs. This blog is an […]