Transforming The Heart
This is long but worth it The church of Jesus Christ in the US has a credibility gap. This gap is between the message the church proclaims and the way its members live. Not every believer in the church falls into this category, but I believe that most of us do. In order for the [...]
This post is the eighth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“. The third section of the Transformation Workbook expands and clarifies the way God made us to process His word and build our own views about life. These views control every aspect of our human experience. We use our volition to process the events of [...]
Continue reading about Section 3 Processing: The Divine Design
This post is the seventh in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“. I am told that good writers summarize what they have written and what they are about to write before they move on. The old adage says: Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them and then tell them what you told [...]
This post is the sixth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“. In the first section of this series we discussed God’s purpose for the believer which is to glorify Him. We glorify God as He transforms us into the image of His Son and we express His character through our souls in our daily lives. [...]
This post is the fifth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“. In the first section of this series we discussed God’s purpose for the believer which is to glorify Him. We glorify God as He transforms us into the image of His Son and we express His character through our souls in our daily lives. [...]
Continue reading about Section 2 B – Completing our Human Needs
Mat 26:20-35 During the Last Supper, Jesus was still trying to convince the disciples that the soldiers were going to come, He was going to suffer, die and be resurrected on the third day. They were so resistant to His message because all their lives they had believed that when Messiah came He would come [...]
The following is a discussion about belief systems, their controlling function in the human soul, the danger of programming false ideas into them and the damage these false ideas can cause in our relationships as we seek to do the will of God. The premise of this study is that what we believe, we use [...]
Continue reading about Peter – Working for Satan Mat 16:16-28
This post is the fourth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“. In the last post, we discussed God’s purpose of the believer, which is to glorify Him. We glorify God by manifesting His unseen, inner qualities through our lives as we grow spiritually in the process of transformation. Transformation is the divine process of change [...]
Everyone who lives and breathes will be criticized and all of us will judge someone at some point. It is in our nature to compare ourselves with others and imagine that we are better. It is one of the wrong ways that sinners seek to build self-esteem. We look for flaws in others that we [...]
James, the younger half brother of Jesus was the pastor of the church in Jerusalem and the writer of the book that carries his name. When I read the book of James, I am struck by the directness of the tone he uses, especially toward those he calls “friends of the world”. James comes down [...]
