Posts under ‘Bible Reflection’

There are certain things I deeply believe to be true about the world. One is that God created human beings with a perfect knowledge of what He was making. Nothing about us surprises Him; He knows what makes us elated, devastated, irate and terrified ["joy", "sadness", "anger" and "fear" are often dubbed "the four core [...]

I recently listened through the book of Mark on my awesome audio Bible (The Bible Experience). I think there’s something I get by listening through a whole book in one sitting that I don’t quite get when I read it piece-by-piece or even the whole way through. So the next series of posts is going [...]

For those of you who find yourself quite drawn to the practicals of life, I apologize for the rather abstract nature of the last three posts (kind of). I wanted to set a biblical foundation for a system of accountability among friends that is based on encouraging daily walking by the Spirit over trying really [...]

In Part I of this series, I wanted to lay a groundwork for why I feel the need to even talk on the topic of “accountability time”. I have a history of accountability-time-gone-bad in my own life, and it set me on a course to figure out why Christians do this sort of thing, and [...]

When I started hanging out with Charismatics, something that struck me very quickly about them that looked quite different from many of the believers I grew up around was how much patience and effort they showed to listen to the Holy Spirit in everyday conversations, prayer, or counseling times. I think the foundational belief of [...]

As many of you know, I’ve been spending a lot of my recent months with believers from many different churches who are significantly more “Charismatic” than those I grew up around. I strongly believe God brought me into this company to stretch my understanding and experience of his character in news ways that would take [...]

I almost thought of calling this post “What I’m Learning” but I decided it was far too broad, and doesn’t actually tell you anything about this post. But this will, in fact, be all about what I’m learning. This whole post is about a process God has been taking me through that started around New [...]

I’ll admit that while I was writing Part II, there were a few uncomfortable moments where I thought, “Mike, this is a really audacious claim you’re making. You mean to tell me that you actually think you were worth the great God of this universe allowing his only son to die a gruesome death for [...]

In Part I, I briefly discussed how I believe that one of the most central questions to the human existence is “Am I worth something?” Almost every sin pattern I can think of has its origins in a  process of answering this question apart from God. If we were confident in our worth and identity as God declares it, we [...]

The more ministry I do, the more I’m beginning to believe that most people’s deep hurts and struggles with faith center around a pretty simple question: “Am I really worth something?” And I don’t just think it’s just church people asking this. I’m a pretty strong believer in the idea that most human beings live their [...]