Posts with the category “perspectives”

The church was birthed to be filled with, led by, and living as a demonstration of the Spirit of God. When we walk in step with the Spirit of creation, we become empowered to overcome and destroy darkness.  Read More

When we hear the word "dangerous," our minds often leap to images of physical threat or violence. But what if the most dangerous force in the world isn't physical at all? What if true danger to darkness, to despair, to the powers that seek to destroy lives—comes from something entirely different?  Read More

Faith doesn't eliminate risk. It transforms it. Faith places obedience on one side of the scale and sacrifice on the other, and reveals that what we gain through obedience always outweighs what we might lose through sacrifice. This is where the Christian life becomes truly dangerous—not to ourselves, but to the forces that would keep us frozen in fear.  Read More

Nothing is wasted in God's economy. Every struggle has purpose. Every storm can become a testimony. Every moment of fear can transform into an opportunity for God to demonstrate His faithfulness.  Read More

The world isn't watching how Christians handle success. They're watching how we handle suffering. They're observing whether our hope holds up under pressure. They're looking to see if what we believe is real enough to sustain us when everything else falls apart.  Read More

When we elevate roles above people and treat leaders as spiritually superior, we stop walking in the Kingdom and start living in the patterns of the world—the very patterns Jesus warned against.  Read More

Throughout Scripture, we see a recurring theme that challenges our natural way of thinking. The apostle Paul, writing from prison—not a metaphorical prison, but actual chains and confinement—penned some of the most hope-filled words in human history. How? His secret wasn't denial or delusion. He saw his circumstances clearly. He acknowledged the reality of his suffering. But he viewed it all through an eternal lens.  Read More

Your temporary struggles are great opportunities for God's glory. What does He want to do through your successes—and even more, through your struggles? The answer might just change everything  Read More

The internet is the modern shrine to the “unknown god”—lots of spirituality, but no anchor in truth, and it is all too easy to confuse the arena with the assignment. We must confront the fact that Paul did not rent an apartment in Athens so he could argue with Stoics on their turf, nor did he plant himself in the Areopagus as though the debates themselves were the mission. No, he preached Christ, planted the gospel like a seed, and then returned to his actual work—building up the churches entrusted to him.  Read More

Everything unravels when God is no longer feared because holiness becomes optional and repentance rare. Sin is managed, not mortified, we exalt leaders to places they were never meant to stand, and the rest of us become consumers. The Church, once the dwelling place of the Most High, becomes a conference center with a cross.  Read More

We cannot allow false theology of grandeur to rob us of the nearness of God, because so often we act as though the only prayers worth praying are eternal prayers. But if we take the time to look closely at Scripture, we find a God who listens to the unremarkable.  Read More

Every true work of God begins not with strategy or structure, but with the thunderclap of revelation. The veil lifts, and God is no longer a concept we manage, He is a fire we cannot touch.  Read More

The problem is not the miracle. The problem is the moment after. The hush that comes when the trumpets are quiet. The impulse to preserve the momentum. To recreate the atmosphere. To bottle the breakthrough. It is not new.  Read More

There is a kind of piety that is only convincing to people who do not read their Bibles. The Pharisees had it. So do many modern Christians. It is the sort of godliness that always has a moral lesson, an inspirational caption, a powerful takeaway—and it always, somehow, involves the self at the center.   Read More

“Look at me, I did a good thing!” Being seen is the quiet plea of every human heart. We want recognition, a nod of approval that affirms our worth, our success, or our goodness. We are not content with merely existing. We want to be acknowledged. Applauded. Seen as significant.  Read More

Let us face it—there are times when Christians are their own worst enemy when it comes to evangelism. We pray for open doors, rehearse our testimony, invite people to church, and then sabotage it all with a lifestyle that whispers—or sometimes shouts—“I don’t really believe what I say I believe.”  Read More

We all want to be in control, do we not? It is human nature to want to call the shots, steer the ship, and have everything go according to our plans and desires. But the hard truth is that real control is an illusion—the universe does not bend to our whims, no matter how tightly we try to grip the reins. From the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, we see the consequences of humanity’s desire to be like God and have ultimate control (Genesis 3).  Read More

The time is now, we must stop reducing the church to a recruitment agency, and instead embrace the full, biblical identity: The church exists for the glory of God, the worship of Christ, the holiness of His people, and the proclamation of His gospel.  Read More

Man would plant a little, but God plants much. Man rations, but God overflows. The wilderness is not dressed up for show, it is filled with a forest that should not exist together in a place so barren that no one can deny Who has done it. The nations will see it, and they will reckon with it. “That they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this” (Isaiah 41:20, ESV).  Read More

Worship is not cozy emotion because it confronts majesty and shatters the self. Modern worship sings as if God were boyfriend, therapist, or background mood. Consuming fire domesticated to candlelight glow. The sanctuary a stage. The priesthood a performance. The offering an applause. But Scripture’s worship is unchanged. It demands reverence, awe, purity, truth, obedience.  Read More

Our eyes are not the standard. Our opinions are not the plumb line. The gaze that matters is the one set upon the throne, steady and unmoved by shifting human currents.  Read More

The commander of the Lord’s army does not answer to human alliances. He is not a mercenary. He is not a mascot. He is not a symbol for any nation, including Israel. He arrives bearing heaven’s authority, not human allegiance, and the first thing he does is reject Joshua’s frame. The question is not, “Whose side is God on?” The question is, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”  Read More

What if, to put it absurdly and yet sharply, someone has discovered themselves to be a cannibal? Must we accept that too? The question may seem ridiculous, but its clarity helps pierce the fog. When the ethic of “accept me as I am” is left unchallenged, it demands affirmation of the self even when that self is in rebellion against God. And Christianity, which never flatters the flesh, will not comply.  Read More

A church can be grown with business strategies. A service can be designed with excellence. A sermon can be preached with eloquence. But none of those require the Spirit. None of those need a living God. If it can be done without Him, it should not be done at all (John 15:5; Psalm 127:1)  Read More

We are now witnessing a quiet crisis in churches across the world—those who once stood on stages with confidence have disappeared behind curtains of confusion and disillusionment. They “felt called.” They were platformed early. They were handed microphones, titles, and trust. But somewhere along the line, they tapped out. The weight was too much. The warfare was unexpected. The yoke that was supposed to be “easy” felt unbearable, because it had never truly been given by Christ.  Read More

The urge to act early is not valor; it is presumption. Holiness has its own timeline. To leave before the process is complete is to die by judgment, not neglect. Jesus did not minister before His time (John 7:30). He did not act on zeal. He waited. Every moment, every miracle, every move, submitted to the hour set by the Father. He did not fill His own hands. He was given the cup, and He drank it.  Read More

God’s holiness has not changed. The cross has not diminished it; it has made a way for us to enter it without perishing. That access should provoke more reverence, not less. More awe, not apathy. If we truly believe Jesus bore the fire of God’s wrath for us, how can we treat worship as casual?  Read More

We like our gods soft these days. Accessible, affirming, approachable—preferably filtered through the lens of modern sentiment. “God is love,” we say, not as a deep theological anchor, but as a gentle, saccharine sigh of relief. He understands. He sees. He smiles. And perhaps, in some imagined corner of heaven, He even shrugs. But what if the God we are so quick to make palatable has, in fact, not changed at all?  Read More

The fragility of their frame is not in the honesty itself but in their refusal to be wrong, their quiet conviction that truth must be agreeable to be true. So they twist the knife the other way, accusing honesty of cruelty, and the one who dares to speak it of arrogance, or worse—unkindness.   Read More

There is a strange irony that often lingers beneath the surface of our most well-meaning Christian communities—one we rarely confront, but often accommodate. It creeps into discipleship under the guise of kindness, weaves its way through sermons cloaked in therapeutic jargon, and quietly reshapes the definition of love until confrontation feels cruel and correction, abusive.  Read More

Have you noticed how often Scripture leaves people unnamed? The woman with the alabaster jar. The man born blind. The thief on the cross. The widow with two mites. The woman at the well. No carefully curated list of “who I am.” Just fragments. Encounters. Moments of divine interruption. And that was enough. Their names are not forgotten because they are unimportant. Their names are forgotten because they were never the point.  Read More

There is a deep and relentless ache within the human soul—a yearning that propels men to etch their names into stone, to chase the ever-fading applause, to strain toward the assurance that they matter. This is no mere cultural impulse but an ancient cry, echoing from Babel to the latest viral post. We are creatures who long to be seen, known, and remembered. And yet, here is the paradox: the more fiercely we grasp for significance through self-exaltation, the more elusive it becomes.  Read More

The words of Jesus in Luke 15 are scandalous in their simplicity: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine... and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?” (Luke 15:4, ESV). He does not wait for the sheep to wander back. He does not sit in the safety of the flock and mourn the one who left. He goes after it.  Read More

The church likes its heroes tidy. We like our narratives linear. We prefer Paul the trailblazer, Barnabas the encourager, Mark the gospel-writer. But when they collide—when a young man deserts his calling, when two apostles can no longer walk together, when the mission itself gets divided—we squint and shift and move quickly along.  Read More

They are quiet, these two. Assumption and her sister Presumption move quickly, feeding on half-truths, imagined offenses, and misheard words. They do not announce themselves with loud accusations or wild gestures. They simply slide into the spaces left unspoken, filling the voids with whispered falsehoods, twisting shadows into supposed truths.   Read More

They desire to be seen as spiritual, as valuable to the community of the faithful, as useful to the movement of God—yet all the while, the intent of the heart is angled not toward Christ’s glory but their own. And the Spirit sees. The eye of man may be beguiled by charisma, gifting, zeal even—but the Spirit knows the bent of a heart.  Read More

The weight of words is not in their fervor but in the obedience that follows. A glaze may gleam on pottery, but beneath—has the fire purified it? Or does the heat reveal fractures unseen?   Read More

Imagine a husband who tells his wife, “I love you,” but never seeks to understand her, never puts effort into knowing her deeper, never sacrifices for her. Is that love? If we claim to love the Lord but refuse to grow, refuse to sharpen our gifts, refuse to work harder, what are we truly saying?  Read More

The tragedy of misplaced position is not just personal; it is collective. It is the church, the community, the family that suffers when someone remains where they were never meant to be. But the beauty of realignment is that when you step into your actual calling, you free others to do the same.   Read More

Life resists our control. We draft plans, set expectations, and map out the trajectory we believe things should follow. But then reality intervenes—detours, delays, dry seasons. Growth does not arrive on schedule. Change does not look the way we imagined. Faced with the discomfort of uncertainty, we try to force movement, fabricate progress, and impose structure where there was once only the wild and unmeasured work of God. But here is the danger: what we manufacture in our impatience can look like growth while suffocating the very life we claim to nurture.  Read More