I have expressed a preference to see more groups take on direct Bible study instead of purchasing commercial lesson package plans with DVDs, books, and study guides one after another. We are training people to eat scriptural baby food instead of training them to...
1/19/2021; The ancient Fathers and Mothers of our faith taught 3 stages of growing in Christ: Purgative- the first stage of recognizing, repenting, and separating from the world and the things that tempt and keep us in bondage to sin. Illuminative- the second stage of...
Journaled 1/18/2020 from Seedbed Daily Text: Transactional prayer= “help me” faith Transcendent prayer= “have me” faith “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. It is tempting to...
JD Walt in today’s Seedbed Daily Text devotional likens immersion reading of scripture ( in contrast to extraction reading) to learning a new language. Responding to today’s SDT on the Scriptures as “language:” One cannot disconnect the New...
Lesson in immersion…. Some are armchair viewers… they watch iMax images and, for a moment, see and experience through others’ eyes the beauty of new adventures captured by people they haven’t known. They seek information out of curiosity....
God has been dealing with me about the FULLNESS of Christ being able to dwell in us for some time…. “that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.”...
