10minas Blog
25-34, A Lesson from the Cannery
I had a memory-making Thanksgiving weekend including seeing a great-grandson for the first time (great #16, 14 boys, 2 girls) and then turkey with son Mark and family. “Turkey,” of course, implies “turkey carcass,” which can translate into “turkey bone-broth.” I collected the remains of seven turkeys from friends (skin, necks and any bones that…
Read More25-33, Why I Am So Sure That – –
Why am I so sure that troubles and their suffering are coming to America? It’s because we need them and God is faithful to send what we need. Only the ignorant or arrogant could think that the church in America is even close to being the bride of Ephesians 5:26-27 that Jesus is coming for.…
Read More25-32, Eyes to See, or Not!
It seems that few in the Church, including leaders, are aware of the spiritual implications of political and natural events and the technological advancements of our Day. We see the supposed peace-making successes, and most either marvel at the savvy of the one who Israel calls “The Prince of Peace,” or dismiss it as irrelevant…
Read More25-31, We’ve GOT to Talk
Communication is crucial to any group of people who hope to work together for the common good. The success of families, businesses, churches, sports teams, and technology development groups, for example, depends a lot on open communication including the willingness of all parties to both speak and listen. We are so different in our interests,…
Read More25-30, The Potter and the Clay
The measure to which the organized church in America has prostituted herself to the world escapes many because we have so given ourselves to the desires of the flesh as a way of life that it no longer bothers our consciences. We have believed “the lie” that we can be gods unto ourselves and make…
Read More25-29, Would You Sign This?
About a year ago I shared in the baptism of several zealous followers of Jesus in their 20’s, and it stirred something deep within me. I sense that we rarely take water baptism seriously in the way that scripture intends. Instead, we cast it in a way that ones’ Christian life is more connected to,…
Read More25-28, Faith to Persevere
I marvel at our heroes of faith in the scriptures and see them as practical, real-life models for us in our soon-coming troubles. My Anabaptist foreparents of 1525 and later demonstrated the same spirit but there are pitifully few true Anabaptists today. So I ask, “What was it, that empowered them to have faith in…
Read More25-27, Where is the FOG?
Do we in the Church in America fear/reverence God in a way that compels us to take Him seriously and to consider His current activities? It looks to me like we’re pretty casual about what’s going on in our chaotic world. We talk about it politically some but rarely from a spiritual standpoint, and we…
Read More25-26, Weekend Reading
Jesus set the tone for what His authentic followers should expect in life. First, He made it clear that we must choose between Him and the world. We will love, set the eye of our heart upon, and pursue one or the other as the source of our identity and fulfillment. That was “black and…
Read More25-25, When Nothing Else Matters
We the Church must be prepared for spiritual darkness and troubles that we can’t presently imagine, and we’re not. I’m not saying we won’t feel pain, I’m only saying that deep down inside we will have an inexplicable peace that comes from the rule of God in our soul. The peace that the man Jesus…
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