Relationship,
Not Religion

Discover the freedom and joy of a Christ-centered faith.

Relationship,
Not Religion

Discover the freedom and joy of a Christ-centered faith.

Relationship,
Not Religion

Discover the freedom and joy of a Christ-centered faith.

Relationship,
Not Religion

Discover the freedom and joy of a Christ-centered faith.

Relationship,
Not Religion

Discover the freedom and joy of a Christ-centered faith.

When You Pray

Jesus takes it for granted that His disciples will pray. This is why four times in a row He says, “WHEN you pray” and not “IF you pray.” But from these brief excerpts of Scripture we learn that there are at least two classes of prayer. One is unacceptable to God, and the other is well-pleasing to Him.

“Teach these things to faithful people who can teach others.”
2 Tim. 2:2

Blessed Are The Disillusioned

Blessed Are The Disillusioned

We really ought to thank and praise God that people are sensing something of the Lord’s dissatisfaction with the way things are. Thank God for that disillusionment. People think disillusionment is a bad thing, but to be disillusioned means you have been stripped of your illusion so you can see what is real.

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The Secret Place of the Most High

The Secret Place of the Most High

Let me ask, how can you make the Lord your habitation, your dwelling place? How is that possible? This can only be interpreted spiritually, it is absolutely impossible, and hardly conceivable, if we think of it naturally. How can I live in the Lord? Well, it’s like Nicodemus saying, “How can a man enter into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

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The Hidden Christ

The Hidden Christ

Christ is revealed or hidden from men as He so desires. So many professed disciples of the Lord Jesus fail to recognize Him. The Lord tells them to go to Galilee, but they go to Emmaus. Many people sitting in church would not discern the Lord Jesus if He walked up the aisle and sat down on the altar.

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When You Fast

When You Fast

That Jesus intends for His disciples to fast is made clear by the words, “When you fast…” Fasting is as much a part of a disciple’s life as prayer; hence the Lord couples, “When you pray” with “when you fast” in His teaching to the disciples.

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Lonely, But Never Alone

Lonely, But Never Alone

Let us not be too quick to seek out others until we have reaped the benefits of being alone with God. Let us remember that Christ’s Body is a spiritual Body. Being in the physical presence of other members does not make us more of a member, and being removed from the physical presence of other members does not make us any less a member.

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The Prophetic Savant

The Prophetic Savant

To the rest of the world, the autistic savant is a bit of a retarded genius, an unfortunate mixture of idiocy and brilliance, caught up in a world of its own. The prophetic savant bears a similar stigma. But if you engage him at all, you soon discover that he sees all of this as absolutely normal; the way it is supposed to be.

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OTC 19: Looking for Fellowship in All the Wrong Places

Kind of like that old song - “Looking for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in too many faces.” I suppose that applies to some Christians looking for love in the form of fellowship, too; looking for fellowship in all the wrong places, looking for fellowship in too many faces. Why do we do that? I think there are a couple of reasons why...Listen Now »

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