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Non-Negotiable #1B – Forgiveness
PART BThree key principles for me about forgiving others are: 1) Knowing that Jesus, the sinless Lamb of God, paid for my offenses against God,* motivates me, a sinner saved by grace, to forgive others as He forgives me. How can I not? 2) Remembering my own ongoing need for God’s grace and forgiveness helps…
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PART ADid you wince when you saw that title? Yeah, this is one of the toughest principles for Abundant Life. The blend of calling, gifting, personality, life experience and personal brokenness that makes me “Ken,” led to many opportunities to practice or reject it through the years. I know the struggle – and I know…
Read MoreSuperpowers and Their Non-Negotiables
This is the first in a series on what I believe to be God’s non-negotiables. You will find some of them hard to swallow and please correct me if I’m making something more non-negotiable than He intends. America is a global superpower. We have the world’s mightiest military and can impose our non-negotiables upon many…
Read MoreII Chronicles 7:14, Now or Never – 5 of 5
FAITH IS THE VICTORYContemporary Christian “faith” is often “faith for” something for our earthly life like a new vehicle, healing, a spouse, a child or a job. It typically reflects the earthly-mindedness of American Christians whose definition of “blessing” is in the “more, bigger, faster, better,” and the comforts, of the things that make life…
Read MoreII Chronicles 7:14, Now or Never – 4 of 5
WHO AM I? Our primary sense of identity influences how we respond to present and upcoming national and global events, some potentially frightening. As an American Christian whose primary citizenship, identity and loyalty are in the Kingdom of God, I find myself observing our world’s chaos at somewhat of a distance because, while it can…
Read MoreA RECIPE FOR TROUBLE
Our world’s chaos is fully known to the Father as He moves the global chess pieces into place for the Rapture, Tribulation and/or Second Coming – – in whatever way history will show them to have taken place. All things, both good and evil, serve Him and His purposes. He sets leaders in place; laughs…
Read MoreII Chronicles 7:14, Now or Never – 2 of 5
REVIVAL, OR NOT?“Revival” means “restoration to life, consciousness, vigor, strength” (Dictionary.com). I believe that what many consider “revival” in America today is not our restoration to God and the life of His kingdom, but evidence of sovereign God’s worldwide End-Times harvest in spite of the Church’s failure to bring in that harvest. Our increased patriotism…
Read MoreII Chronicles 7:14 Now or Never? – 1 of 5
AN UNPLEASANT TRUTH?God’s Word says a lot about a lot of things and we like some more than others. One truth we don’t like as much is that trials and suffering are part of the Christian journey and actually benefit spiritual growth. Jesus said that following Him would be difficult, and that all who do…
Read MoreMore Like Jesus – 4
The Biblical call to becoming more like Jesus implies that I will be “being transformed” until I take my first breath in heaven. The three painful years since Elaine’s passing presented the setting for growing into measures of intimacy with the Father that I had never known in my previous 82 years, and it continues…
Read MoreMore Like Jesus – 3
I just love the word “transformed.” It is bursting with life, hope and the process into experiencing them. Remember our “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”* Our…
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