Rejecting Normal
Reading further in Francis Chan's book Forgotten God, I realized that the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 is just that--Fruit OF the Spirit. Not fruit of my works. Not fruit of my righteousness checklist. Not fruit of all my striving. When I accept Christ,...
“Why do we look so much like the world?”
When I walked into the churches of my childhood and into many today, I see normal people sitting on the pews. With normal worries, concerns, and stresses. I see them handling those problems much the same as anyone on the street would, with the exception of a little...
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The Spirit’s Love
Can you imagine what our churches, our lives, would look like if we embraced the Spirit’s presence there? If through the Spirit we were able to comprehend “…the breadth and the length and the height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge…”...
“This is where the healing begins…”
As I reread well known verses, my eyes are being opened to all that we’re missing out on by ignoring or denying the presence of the Holy Spirit in us. One that has really caught my attention is Eph. 3:18-20:“…may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints...
I'm reading Francis Chan's new book Forgotten God. I haven't even gotten into the book itself yet but have just been reading the verses he lists on the Holy Spirit that tell of the promises God gives us through him. Reading these verses has made me very angry and very...