Joel 2 Generation Podcast

This is part one of a message about BOLDNESS from Acts 4, about LOVE from Matthew 24 and about ENDURANCE from Hebrews 12. Some new insights that I have had about both boldness and love in this message.

Another sober and challenging consideration of the Christian life in light of eternity. The radical cost of following Jesus for so many of God's children ONLY makes sense in light of eternity. May God awaken within us all this perspective - that this life is only a "vapor" (James 4:14) in comparison to life everlasting in the presence of God.

Are we living at the End of the Age? No one knows, but the things Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 are happening today all over the world. The apostasy, the lawlessness, the persecution. Let us all consider our own lives in light of the clear words of Jesus. Let us re-commit ourselves to follow Him with endurance until His Return!

Nothing changes everything like having the Eternal Perspective. So little of what Jesus taught makes any sense UNLESS we ourselves get His perspective - the eternal one. I continue to "explore the space" as to what it means to live our temporal lives from this place.

The mandate all Christians have until Christ Returns - we are brought into the Kingdom and commissioned to "preach the Gospel of the Kingdom" - what does that look like? what does that entail? This is not a secondary issue but our PRIMARY mandate as followers of Christ.

A Christian is: *FORGIVEN **RESTORED ***SET FREE ****ADOPTED *****GIVEN AN INHERITANCE ******EMPOWERED

You simply cannot get away from the Biblical truth that LOVE is what God is and what God requires of us. I walk through EVERY NT leader - from Jesus to all of the Apostles who wrote the New Testament. Love IS the key because God Himself is LOVE.

This is message I recently gave about having an eternal perspective. I believe this is one of the keys to living the Christian life and to being able to endure until the end. I will follow this up with other messages in this series. Note: This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT podcasts I have ever done.

The Kingdom of God was Jesus' PRIMARY message - but it was MORE THAN "a message" - it was a DEMONSTRATION of what it looks like when Heaven invades earth. This is Christianity 101 and yet many Christians are not living this way. May this be our primary message!

in the Kingdom, it is really ALL ABOUT LOVE. God is love, God comes to live within us and calls us to become love in all we are and all we do. Love is the sum of the law and the fulfillment of the law. It was time to revisit the subject.

I was asked this week, "How can we continue to progress in seeing greater breakthrough in healing"? This podcast is a response to that question. How to go after stuff we've never seen healed before? How do we grow and see our faith increase in healing?

"Process" is a bad word in many Christian circles today, but the concept is 100% Biblical and to not understand that spiritual growth and transformation is a process will lead to spiritual disaster/shipwreck. This podcast is a reminder that growth is normally a slow, tedious process that will last a lifetime.

Unbelief, ignorance, lack of love, and the fear of man are all barriers to the life of the Kingdom, but I believe the #1 barrier is lack of commitment. I don't believe so-called "Millennials" shy away from commitment - just look at Extreme Sports athletes today. I believe that the Church however has "misread" them and has sadly offered a "watered-down" version of the Gospel, that essentially is a perversion of the Biblical one.

This topic is critical in these days. There are way too many who "cherry pick" verses to support doctrines and practices that are out of balance at best and false and even heretical at worst. I've done it personally and believe one of the ways God has ordained for us to stay away from such extremes is to always have a systematic Bible reading plan. I hadn't had one for years and God really challenged me to make a change. Here are my thoughts.

Jesus spoke about everything that is hidden will one day be revealed. That is happening in ways today that no one would have ever anticipated. This is a call to repentance in a day when the message of repentance is hardly ever preached.

Elitism is something that will hinder God's Kingdom in the life and ministry of a believer as much as anything else! This podcast is all about the Elite Spirit and a strong exhortation to wage war against it in all of its overt and/or subtle manifestations. It has been a major problem in many ministries, especially in the Charismatic/Pentecostal tradition.

There are those who want to emphasize God's power, control (Sovereignty) as central to His Essence. Others might want to argue that it is Holiness. I contend that the essence of who God is is Love and that all other attributes and characteristics flow out of that core reality of our relational God. It begins with the eternal relationship of love within the Holy Trinity - the eternal love that has flowed between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since it is God's essential nature, so too must it be our primary concern in the Christian life. In this and the following podcasts, I make the case Biblically that Love trumps all else in the Kingdom.

This is the 2nd part in a series looking at the core message of the Book of Romans. This is a summary of the 3 principles that Mike Bickle identifies as key to living the Christian life - to know who you are (identity), to resist sin and the enemy and to pursue God and His Kingdom.

This is the first part of a message about the 3 key principles in the Book of Romans. Mike Bickle identifies these 3 principles - Knowing, Resisting and Pursuing. It is these 3 things that together will lead us to be able to live the Christian lives God has called us to. Neglecting any of these three principles will pretty much guarantee that we will get into error and/or live defeated Christian lives.

There continues to be a lot of "name calling" in the Body of Christ and this past week I had the interesting experience of interacting via email with a man who believes a number of the men/women and ministries that we value are in fact made up of "false prophets" and "false teachers" - this podcast will evaluate these claims. I do in fact believe there are both false prophets and teachers around today, but sadly many of the "heresy hunters" don't even use the New Testament criteria to determine who they are. I will consider some of those criteria and expose why many of these so-called "Discernment Ministries" are in fact bearing false witness.