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Flight Briefing The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.  Matthew 9:37 The “flight briefing” called by the Master Instructor went exactly like this. He called His twelve disciples to Him and gave them authority…

Leaking Jesus The good man brings good things of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him” Matthew 12:35 I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but babies leak. They also desire close proximity. At times this is…

The Loyalty Barrier   “Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do”. I Peter 1:15 The problem is this: lately it feels like everything is falling apart. I’m struggling with work and with my family.  I have not fully surrendered to God and…

Take the Fight to Evil “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” Matthew 28:18 Reality demands response, and some things need to be said now about choosing this fight. The days of being distant and ambivalent toward evil are over.  With knowledge comes responsibility and with…

Move Your borders in Continual Growth If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted. Job 31:7-8 The ambition of God’s…

Kingdom Building “From the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of God has been forcefully advancing. And forceful men lay hold of it.” Matthew 11:12 When your view of God is right, your identity as God’s man is settled (as in, no more competing identities), and you are willing…

A Gift with Purchase For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 God accepts only one currency for Salvation. Faith.  Repentance and baptism are authentic…

Accept God’s Process There is a way that seems right to man, but in the end it leads to death.  Proverbs 14:12 God is not very product oriented. That’s a bummer for most men, including me. We like to look at what we’ve done. Walt Henrichsen puts it this way:…

Sacrifice like Christ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. Philippians 2:6-7 These famous words of martyred missionary Jim Elliot makes him the patron…

Make way Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.  Do not get drunk with wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,…