OUR PREACHING SHOULD PRODUCE HUMILITY, NOT PRIDE

OUR PREACHING SHOULD PRODUCE HUMILITY, NOT PRIDE

Preaching should create a hunger in the one listening to desire greater humility, and therefore a greater submission to and dependence upon God, which will result in greater grace accessed, and the devil fleeing. (James 4:6-8) But it seems that much preaching today...
BODY COUNT IN THE CHURCH

BODY COUNT IN THE CHURCH

Sometimes young emerging ministry leaders look at high profile “celebrity status” preachers and have such a desire to be like them, not knowing the “body count” of the spent lives of believers that were trashed along the road of unbridled...
DOES GOD ANOINT THE MESSAGE OR THE MESSENGER?

DOES GOD ANOINT THE MESSAGE OR THE MESSENGER?

If He anoints the messenger, then is it possible for the messenger to be anointed, and yet still be preaching something that is biblically in error? That is something pretty serious to think about. It is critically important for believers to know and study the Word of...
APOSTOLIC PERSPECTIVE: PRIDE

APOSTOLIC PERSPECTIVE: PRIDE

If you are a true apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is not whether you will be tempted with pride, but when and how. Using Paul as one whose life and apostolic ministry we teach apostolic principles and patterns from, we can see that this is something he had to...