Monthly Archives: January 2015

5 Really Bad and 5 Really Good Reasons to Go to Bible College. via 5 Really Bad and 5 Really Good Reasons to Go to Bible College. I originally posted this last April, and it was the most viewed post of 2014.  Which I believe it should have been – there are right reasons to goContinue reading “5 Really Bad and 5 Really Good Reasons to Go to Bible College”

I love playing pool.  I don’t get much chance to play it anymore, but I used to as a teen play all the time.  I never was much good, but I enjoyed the game. You have to pot all the stripes or spots, depending on which you potted first, then finally pot the eight ball.Continue reading “The Eight Ball”

Originally posted on Heilan Word Ministries:
After being prompted by a member of the fellowship I have started studying out what the Bible says about being offended or taking offence. I am just at the start of these studies (so will probably write more in DIG in the future) but already I’ve had a few…

FOR THOSE IN THE FIVEFOLD MINISTRY: Bad apostles command you to plant churches. Good apostles father you and raise you up to plant churches. They are there for you, they help you, they support you. Bad prophets chastise you for missing God’s voice. Good ones inspire you to tune in to His still small voiceContinue reading “Good and Bad Fivefold Ministries!”

1 Tim 3.3 says elders should not be given to wine. This one doesn’t need an analysis of the Greek, it doesn’t need shades of meaning or dissecting.  Now the Tree of Life isn’t teetotal, and I am not teetotal, but if you are given to getting drunk you need to deal with it. YouContinue reading “Pastors and Elders XI: The Requirements for an Elder (part VIII)”

If you are saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit, your number one key to spiritual growth, to prosperity, to deliverance, to freedom is getting involved in a local church.  It is that simple, and it is that non-negotiable. Jesus promised to build His church, and Paul tells us the church is the body ofContinue reading “Priorities for the New Year”