Retro

Three different times in the book of the Revelation, it is said about Jesus that He “is, was, and is to come.” Trying to explain all that those words represent would be like trying to explain infinity. Let me just emphasize one extraordinary truth that description of Jesus speaks of. My story became Jesus’s story […]

“For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus…” Ephesians 2:10. When a great artist creates a masterpiece, they believe in what they have created. Artists don’t like it when other people criticize their masterpiece because they know that what they have created is a stroke of their own genius. The lump of clay that

Ephesians 4:13,15 NASB95  until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. [15] but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into

Luke 5:4-11 NASB95  When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” [5] Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” [6] When they

Blessed are those who, instead of trying to attain Christ-likeness by the imitation of Christ have come to realize that they have already been planted in His likeness. Outward imitation of Christ has little place in spiritual growth because it is an impossibility. Outward imitation does not accomplish inward transformation. Instead, inward transformation because of

True Christian discipleship is the process of learning to live from Christ instead of for Christ. Imagine Christ clothing Himself in your personality and body as the vehicle through which He is going to live His life. Thinking and looking from you, what do you believe Jesus’s thoughts and feelings are? Does He feel anxious

True Christian discipleship is the process of learning to live from Christ instead of for Christ. Imagine Christ clothing Himself in your personality and body as the vehicle through which He is going to live His life. Thinking and looking from you, what do you believe Jesus’s thoughts and feelings are? Does He feel anxious

Romans 15:15-18 NASB95  But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God, [16] to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the

Acts 19:11 NASB95 God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, Christianity has nothing to do with our ability. It is all about our availability, and availability is just our being available to His ability. The fullness of Christ enjoyed and manifested includes both His holiness reigning in us and His ministry released

1 Corinthians 12:12, “For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, or one body, so also is Christ.” 1 Corinthians 12:27, “Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.” Ephesians 5:29-30 KJV For no man ever yet hates