J.W. Phillips

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    What Was Mary Doing?

    There came a day when not even Jesus could answer the question, what was Mary doing? Let me give you the background for what happened that day so you’ll understand its context.It should not surprise us that the mother of him who was called the Word would be a woman...

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    What Was Mary Thinking?

    It can happen in a moment. A vision can come that will completely change your life! Before the vision, your future was in one direction. After the vision, it was in another.Typically, our first thoughts about sudden visions are more magical than biblical. A wand-waving angel with stardust sprinkled from...

    8 min read
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    The Campaign Against Your Finances

    Satan was defeated at the cross. But being a liar, he doesn’t want you to know about it. And being a thief, he wants (through this deception) to steal what belongs to you.His campaign against health and wealth, widely believed in the church, has been quite remarkable from his point...

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    Prosperity—Has God Said? 

    The one criterion that should settle the controversy over the prosperity message is, what did God say? Ironically, it was Satan who asked this question— “has God said?”— while putting his own twist on it. And he did so in the Garden of Eden—Eden, the very setting of prosperity! A...

    11 min read
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    The Purposes of Prosperity

    Must money constantly corrupt the soul? Denying that this is the case, A.B. Simpson insisted, “Money cannot hurt you if you do not love it for its own sake. It is not your fortune that hurts you, but your clinging fondness for it.…” 1 If the attachment is too strong,...

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    The Perils of Prosperity

    Perhaps the biggest reason the prosperity message is feared is its threat to dulling the heart to the truths of God, while at the same time exciting the heart to a carnality that reeks with worldliness. This fear is legitimate. Who can deny that the piled-up splendors of ostentatious wealth...

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    Rethinking What Scripture Says About Prosperity

    Communications these days have become toxic. We see it in political discourse particularly, where passion precedes the first syllable uttered. Rhetoric ignites, shouting begins, invectives are hurled, people are denounced, the opposition is caricatured. There’s no listening. There doesn’t need to be. Minds are made up. And there’s no thought...

    8 min read
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    Losing the Rewards

    Nobody wants to be a loser. Merging back into the crowd as an “also ran”—a participant without distinction, having a number but not a name—is hardly a welcomed experience. To train and try, only to come up short can be very disheartening. Sure, the hurt feelings will go away, but...

    11 min read
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    No Mistakes in Giving These Rewards

    It is not uncommon for the public to have other ideas about who the winners should have been at the Academy Awards, the Grammies, and the MVP in various sports. Nothing like that will happen when God gives his rewards.Matthew 16:27 says he will reward according to our works. I...

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    How God Will Give Rewards

    Daniel Webster, the Secretary of State under President Millard Fillmore, was eating dinner with a number of prominent people in the Astor Hotel one night when someone asked him what was the most profound thought he had ever had? In reply, he said that the most profound thought he ever...

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    Real Rewards—Not Participation Awards

    What if God were to tell you that for one week he was going to watch your life with intense scrutiny and, based on how you lived for him during that week your eternal reward would be determined. How would you respond?Chances are, you’d start reading your Bible as if...

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    You Will Never Be Forgotten

    The God who repeatedly tells us to remember, never forgets to do so himself. That’s why nothing you did for him has been forgotten by him. The significance of what you did has never diminished in the slightest, not even with the passing of years. Others may overlook you. Generations...

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    Don't Forget to Forget

    The call to remember sometimes has a flip side: the call to forget. While remembering is important, there are some things we should forget. We should forget, for example, past sins against us and all those injustices that have been done to us. Collecting old coins and rare stamps may...

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    Remembering God's Favor

    It is true that God is not a respecter of persons, but he does have favorites. What?! Yes, God has favorites! That may not ring true to many people for several possible reasons. They may have: imported democracy into their theology, where everybody has equal opportunity; or socialism into their...

    7 min read
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    Buried Memories—Yeah, You Wish

    Not all of our memories are good. There are some memories we want to repress, memories we want stuffed where reflection won't occur. The pain is so great, why dig all that up? Nope, no way. We want them buried and kept buried.Here's why that’s not a good strategy. If...

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    If Memory Serves—And it Does!

    One of the ways memory serves us is to draw attention to significant markers in our spiritual growth, markers of maturity, and this includes lessons learned to achieve that maturity.In Deuteronomy 25:17, Moses issues this invitation: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out...

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    I Fought the Law and the Law Won

    Older ones among us will recognize the title of this post. There was a song with this title sung by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1966 and reprised later when Sam sang it on “Cheers”.The title is universal, because we are all lawbreakers, lawbreakers who have discovered—the law doesn’t break,...

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    Why Do We Sometimes Look for the Worst in People?

    Years ago, Dr. George A. Gordon, the famous Boston preacher, was taking one of his trips abroad. Upon boarding the ship and going down to his stateroom, he discovered that his roommate was a hunchback, a very ugly man, dwarfish and evil in appearance. After fretting about this for a...

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    How Important Are Your Feelings?

    It is not uncommon for Christians to judge their spiritual status almost entirely by the presence or absence of feelings. If feelings are in decline, the tendency is to lose motivation, gain guilt, and slack off in their pursuit of God. Responding to this pronounced and prevailing tendency in our...

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    Uplifting Laughter 

    Have you ever noticed that when looking at pictures of the great men and women of God that they’re never laughing? In fact, it’s rare that they are even smiling. What do you make of this? Did they not know joy? Their biographies indicate they knew deep joy, abiding joy,...

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    Jesus, The Deliverer

    There is one account in Scripture that says so much about sin, Satan, and deliverance we dare not ignore it; it merits our careful consideration. Let me set the scene for you as we consider exactly what did and did not happen.The hour had come! There was an air of...

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    More Unscriptural Deliverance Ministry Practices 

    One has to wonder how Scripture might have read if Neil Anderson had been the one who met the woman at the well. Let’s see, now: five husbands and currently living with another man? Well! A lengthy interrogation is certainly due here! One can even imagine how the conversation would...

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    Deliverance Ministry Practices —Just Making it Up

    What we are finding in this brief review is that the new deliverance ministries, when compared with Scripture, set forth proofs that are different, premises that are different and, as we shall see next, practices that are different. For example, how these ministers communicate with demons is distinctly different than...

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    Demons Inside You—Proofs Offered, Proofs Refuted

    The modern deliverance ministers only damage their own credibility when they consistently set forth flawed and flimsy reasons to make their points. They do this on two levels: different premises and different proofs.Let’s consider each.Different PremisesTheir first false premise is this: God and demons can co-exist in a believer. Just...

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    Can a Demon Invade and Inhabit a Christian?

    What the church, both evangelical and Pentecostal, rejected for years, that a Christian can be demonized, has come to be accepted by modern-day deliverance ministries. Despite there being no clear scriptural example of a believer ever inhabited by a demon, these deliverance ministers cite more than twenty passages that they...

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    He’s Baack!

    “He’s baack!” What ominous words when spoken of the sudden reappearance of Freddie Krueger. “He’s baack!” What rousing words when spoken of the return of Donald Trump to the presidency.“He’s baack!” What thrilling words when spoken of a fresh vision of our Lord! Just now you may be experiencing a...

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    The Land of Beginning Again

    More than a hundred years ago, Louisa Fletcher wrote a poem that easily resonates with all of us.I wish that there were some wonderful placeCalled the land of Beginning Again,Where all our mistakes and all our heartachesAnd all of our poor selfish griefCould be dropped like a shabby old coat...

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    The Most Important Election

    We are being told these days that the most important election is here. And, yes, there can be no question that this coming election is exceedingly important!In fact, if we don’t get this right, the United States can lose its constitutional system (that would be the greatest tragedy), and its...

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    Spiritual Formation—Wrong Name, Wrong Claim 

    One could wish that the term “spiritual formation,” now commonly but erroneously used in evangelical circles, would be dropped. Its origin is found in Galatians 4:19 where Paul addresses a group sometimes called the Judaizers. These were Jews who were insisting that converts had to go through the foyer of...

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    Spiritual Formation—Shhh! … Whee!

    A false and dangerous mysticism is rapidly infecting evangelical churches today. We previously mentioned the scripture abuse inflicted by Lectio Divina by which the Bible is used as a prop to muzzle the mind. What follows is silence (shhh!) and then the launch of one’s imagination (whee!). We will briefly...

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    Spiritual Formation—Hallmarks of Heresy

    The Spiritual Formation movement of Richard Foster and Dallas Willard brazenly oppose basic Bible teaching, and do so in a way that shouldn’t fool a fool. You judge for yourself as you evaluate their own words.Dallas Willard argues that the spiritual formation disciplines are essential to Christianity, not optional. Without...

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    Spiritual Formation—Deviant Disciplines

    Ever since the Evil One encountered Eve in Eden and Jesus in the wilderness, the word of God has been under attack. With ingenious subtlety, Satan has tried to adulterate the Word by attaching it to rival sources (some other book, some other philosophy, some other tradition), and also to...

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    Beware of Soul Care

    The soul care ministry has been warped! Usurped! Hijacked!Soul care, for many years, featured more biblical and traditional insights for ministering to the people of God. Not anymore.Soul care today uses the heretical inner healing movement (Agnes Sanford, Leanne Payne), the heretical spiritual formation movement (Richard Foster, Dallas Willard), and...

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    Throne Life—The Life You Can Have Now

    We aren’t reading our Bible right if we don’t see the exalted status we’ve been given. Many Christians think they should be a lowly, humble servant and that aspiring to be more promotes pride. According to Revelation 1:6, though, the born-again Christian is a king!True, Jesus is the King of...

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    Who Is Writing Your Story?

    Many people are frustrated because life isn’t turning out the way they had hoped. It has been observed that each man’s life is a diary in which he meant to write one story but was forced to write another.Perhaps you can identify with this assessment, because you, too, remember certain...

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    One Verse: An Example of Journaling

    My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).My God —I remember when I said “my Dad”; he’s gone now but that was such a special relationship for me. He was mine, not in the sense that I owned him but...

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    One Verse: An Example of Meditating

    Isaiah 26:3 is a verse we should meditate, drawing different meanings from different words as we do so.How do we get perfect peace? Referring to God in this verse—who obviously is the only source of true peace—the prophet declared, “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed...

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    The Truth About Tithing

    Many within the church believe in tithing. They may not believe it to the extent they tithe, but they do feel guilty about not tithing. Should they?The short answer is, no; and when setting forth explanations for that truth, many Christians will be shocked to hear these facts about tithing:Abraham...

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    So No One Ever Exhorted You in Church—Is This Good?

    Many people have attended church for years and have never been personally exhorted. Is this a good thing?Not really, though hardly anyone is disappointed. They like living their lives in virtual anonymity. That’s why their sharing, if it happens at all, is steadily selective, always safe, always shallow, because in...

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    The George Soros Church: No Church Discipline 

    George Soros is a despicable man who has done much to hurt our country. Soros recruits and funds people all over the country to become prosecutors who won’t prosecute.Very serious crimes, which in years past would have landed a person in jail for years, now result in quick processing and...

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    Who Do You Have to Encourage You?

    There will be times in your life and mine when the difference between obedience and disobedience may very well hinge on somebody’s example.While principles are good, and promises are great, and the workings of the Holy Spirit are indispensable, still, there are those times when a flesh-and-blood example can mean...

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    The Agenda of Angels

    The psalmist wrote, “Bless you the Lord, you his angels …” (Psalm 103:20); and in the next verse, referring to the angels, wrote, “Bless ministers of His who do His pleasures.”Broadly stated, this is the angels’ agenda, to do God’s pleasures.And what are these pleasures?Luke 12:32 says it is the...

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    The Availability of Angels

    Hebrew 1:14 speaks of angels as ministering spirits set forth to minister to those who inherit salvation.And who are they? Well, that includes you, because Galatians 3:29 says, if you are Christ’s, you are heirs according to the promise! The service of these angels, therefore, is part of your inheritance.When...

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    The Awesomeness of Angels

    Angels are often depicted as sissy cherubim with hands folded, halos above the head, either singing a song or having their mouths formed in the shape of a perfect “O”.These cookie-cutter angels—suggesting Heaven said, “I’ll take a million of those and a million of those”—hardly look like a formidable force...

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    Angels All Around Us

    The Devil has his demons, God has his angels; and while we hear a lot about demons these days, we’re not hearing as much about angels.We know the number of God's angels is at least twice the size as the number of the Devil's demons. So how many angels are...

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    Ten Small Group Questions That Are More Effective 

    You’ve read those lists of suggested questions for small groups before. These questions, with slight variations, are used in almost every small group. And this is a huge mistake! Why? Because they will “dead-end” a group into shallow sharing.Questions commonly asked are: 1) What is the major point? 2) What...

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    How Sin Wins—It’s an Inside Job

    Pastors who know the Word better than most of us, who have served the Lord more effectively than most of us, are in the headlines today because of their moral failure.When these stories broke, we were stunned … then sad, supremely sad… and are still bewildered…How can this happen?That’s a...

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    Fear of the Lord Benefits

    Our first thoughts about fearing God, especially if these are natural thoughts, is that most entries are going to be on the minus side of the ledger. So why bother? Who wants to live in fear anyway?Wrong question, but that is how people think.The Bible gives us the other side...

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    Not Too Much Fear of God in Your Life? How to Get it Back

    One can’t imagine what is going on in the life of a fallen preacher. The public exposure, the heaped-up guilt, the prosecution of a condemning conscience, great opportunities taken away, past messages scrubbed from websites, reputation gone. The pain must seem unbearable!To have God’s love is to be deeply touched...

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    How the Fear of God Prevents Falling Away from God

    When we see revered Christians fall, and know there were good reasons they were regarded as revered, the impact on us is sobering, and in some ways scary.Those who would too easily conclude that such leaders were hypocrites all along are misdiagnosing what occurred.The fact is someone can indeed walk...

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    Another Fallen Preacher—Our Need for the Fear of God

    Hardly a week goes by without a shocking headline about some well-known preacher’s fall into disgrace. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, stunned by the fall of a dear friend of his, said last week in his grief that what may be missing is the fear of the Lord. That...

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    Criteria for Evaluating What We Hear

    Since no Christian wants to mislead (or to be misled) through a supposed word from God, it is important to understand how to evaluate what we hear.One criterion for evaluating a supposed word from God is the tone of the word communicated. Is it negative or positive? Does it lead...

    7 min read
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    Preconditions for Hearing God

    Most people go through life with the belief that God keeps his distance, at least in the way he communicates with them.Given this belief, and a life that seems to reflect it, theirs is the composite God of:reflections from nature,deductions from reason,projections from hope, andinjections from feeling.The Bible is used...

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    Does God Speak Today?

    There is in Scripture a widely reported phenomenon not often experienced by many Christians today: the awesome privilege of hearing the voice of God.Have you ever heard God speak?If your answer to that question is in the affirmative, did you know that some in the evangelical world would be very...

    5 min readHear God's VoiceArticles
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    Rethinking Fatherhood

    The more psychologists study what is going on in today's home, the more documentation there is defining the dilemma of being, and having, a dad.It was Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist from the early 1900s, who said, “Give a child a good mother and any old stick will do for...

    7 min readFatherhoodParentArticles
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    Ten Prohibitive Parent-Provokers

    It is noteworthy that the very verse that tells parents to bring up their children in the nurture of the Lord also tells them not to provoke their children.We could wish otherwise, but one of the biggest problems children have is their parents! And were we to trace the problem...

    7 min readArticlesParentsParenting
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    Hand-Me-Down-Truth

    Ephesians 6:4 says that the parents, and particularly fathers, are to bring up their children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.So what exactly does this mean? And how are parents to undertake such an important task? Are there pitfalls that should be avoided?Yes, there are, but before...

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    How Are Parents to Parent?

    Two major areas of life for which many are ill-prepared are marriage and parenting.Dr. Carl Rogers, well known for his client-centered therapy approach, has observed that “if 50 to 75 percent of Ford or General Motors cars fell apart within the early part of their lifetimes as automobiles, drastic steps...

    9 min readParentsParentingArticles
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    How a Husband Becomes a Priest

    The magnificence of marriage, as set forth in the last verses of Ephesians 5, is portrayed with inspired insights into the husband’s role. No Hallmark card comes anywhere close!We learn in these verses that the husband is to be a leader, a lover, a giver, a savior, a sanctifier, and...

    7 min readMarriageCouplesLeadershipLeaders
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    How to Handle a Woman

    At the time most people got married, they were so much in love they couldn’t imagine how their marriage would ever end up like those “other” marriages they had seen.But now that several years have passed and some very different dynamics have settled in, they have to acknowledge that what...

    5 min readArticlesMenMarriage
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    Witnessing that Works, Evangelism that Doesn't

    The call to be an evangelistic church has meant focusing on getting people saved. The call itself has biblical support. How we go about it is another matter.Paul's instruction to Timothy, to “do the work of an evangelist” (II Timothy 4:5) was universalized in some denominations to mean the pastor...

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    How to Get 50/20 Vision

    Sometimes it's difficult to make sense of it all. The problems challenging us—some of these being pure evil—trigger the question: Why is all this happening to me?We could wish that life was problem-free: that there were no money problems, health problems, relationship problems, or any other problem that would sap...

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    Why God Tests You

    The purpose of a test, whether from God or from a teacher, is to provide an opportunity to demonstrate mastery, accomplishment, achievement.We may not like the extra effort we have to make to pass a test, but think of the alternative: What if there were no tests?If that were so,...

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    I Don’t Get No Respect

    Do you remember Rodney Dangerfield, the rubbery-faced comedian with sad hound dog eyes? For many years, he used to do all his routines around the line, “I don’t get no respect.” This was a line that strongly resonated with people, and perhaps our childhood helps to explain why.When we were...

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    A Patent for Patience

    According to the Bible, patience can take two forms. The active form of patience is steadfastness; the passive form of patience is waiting—and both are surely needed by Christians today!There will be those times when we will want to call a halt to our efforts. And there will be other...

    5 min readPatienceChristiansArticles
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    Is Your Patience Authentic or Cosmetic?

    Ask most people to identify an obvious weakness in their character and the one cited most frequently is a lack patience.Anger, irritability, being snappish, over-reactive, belligerent and bellicose are not examples of losing patience but choosing anger.Just remember, it's always better to be patient than to become a patient.If we...

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    Grading Our Goals for Greeting—Are We Doing it Right?

    Scripture's repeated commands to greet one another aren't just talking about visitors. If we limit these commands to visitors only, we would be trivializing what the command to greet one another is really all about.Of course, visitors should be welcomed; there’s no question about that. But the command to greet...

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    Unfriendly Churches

    Have you ever visited a church where not one person greeted you? If so, you can easily remember the scene as you entered the church that day.Anticipating a greeting from either an official looking usher or an especially friendly church member, you stood and waited, looking first one way and...

    7 min readChurchArticlesLeadershipLeaders
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    What is the New Nature?

    After centuries of covenant-making and covenant-breaking, it was declared through the pen of the prophet that God would solve this problem by giving man a new spirit.Indeed, it would be this spirit that would make all the difference!The Lord said, “I will put My spirit within you and cause you...

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    The Jekyll and Hyde Christian

    Many Christians think that living a consistently obedient life—a good life, a pure life, a holy life—is bound to fail, even for a Christian.The standards, they think, are too high, the opportunities to sin are too many, the flesh is too strong. Some Christians even say they can’t make it...

    5 min readChristiansEncouragement
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    Your Flesh and Your Old Man Are Not the Same

    Christians often use the terms “the flesh” and “the old man” interchangeably, even though important distinctions exist between these two nemeses.Flesh, or what may be negatively referred to as our “self-life,” is a residue of the old nature, now vanquished and vanished. It is past behavioral programming, once trained and...

    4 min readChristiansRighteousness
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    No Hell or—Hell, No! 

    I grew up in a day, and in a church, where preaching on hell was common. Many churches today never preach on this subject, and this is indefensible.If hell is a real place, and if many people will go there and stay there, saying nothing about hell is one of...

    14 min readHell Church JudgmentArticles
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    Heaven On My Mind

    It may be fairly stated that the frequency of our thoughts about Heaven predicts how we are living on earth.Defining Heaven isn’t the issue here; thinking about it is.Truth is, many people, both Christian and non-Christian, hardly think about Heaven at all. Apathy About the AfterlifeAbout the only time many...

    9 min readHeavenArticles
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    Is Your Peace Real?

    Everybody wants peace; and if they can't find it, they'll get a substitute.For many people, their substitute is popping pills. But the catatonic, zombie-like behaviors tranquilizers produce hardly resembles God's peace.Among the many substitutes or counterfeits to God's peace is the peace of stoicism. No other generation has opted for...

    7 min readPeaceArticles
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    The Peace Path—Are You On It?

    For hundreds and thousands of years, from his days in the jungle to his days in the city, men and nations have been on a search for peace—peace for themselves, peace for their children, and peace for all mankind. The peace they’ve been searching for, though, they have scarcely ever...

    3 min readPeace Articles
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    What is the Gospel According to You?

    High in the dome of the Palace Rospigliosi in Rome is a classic painting by Guido Reni entitled, “The Aurora.” But because the viewing of this picture required that long upward look, therefore straining the neck and eyes of anyone making the attempt, its beauty was somewhat difficult to appreciate.Attempting...

    4 min readGospelArticles
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    We Can't Communicate!

    We can't communicate!Have you heard those words before? Have you spoken those words?There are three signs which indicate that a marriage is in trouble: the lack of touch, talk, and time. And usually, all three do the disappearing act together.If the conversations have virtually ceased in your marriage, or perhaps...

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    Put Him in His Place!

    One of the deepest needs in a man’s life is the need for respect. Appreciation, admiration, adulation—take your pick; the typical man will be glad to have any or all of that.Perhaps this is so because in the highly competitive world where men exist, criticism and self-doubt are the venue...

    8 min readLeadershipArticles
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    The Need for a Playmate

    It is quite common for marriages to succumb to a joyless routine, to a hum-drum existence that offers little excitement. Eventually, both marriage partners begin to wonder why their love isn’t as strong as it used to be.The real reason for this isn’t exactly a mystery. It is attributable to...

    5 min readMarriagesCouplesArticles
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    I Have the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart

    This title comes from a song many of us sang while we were still children. However, it was better credentialed by the first followers of Christ. Their radiant faces, supernaturally lit up by God, deeply touched all around them.If only it were that way today!John Hunter observed, “One of the...

    8 min readJoyArticles
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    It’s About Time

    Many years ago, a traveler to the state of Kentucky saw a statue of the famous racehorse, Man of War. At the base of that statue was the inscription, “This is the fastest horse the world has ever known.” Underneath that inscription some wag wrote, “This is the fastest world...

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    A Scandal in Church Leadership

    There is a scandal in church leadership! Not the scandal you read about in the newspapers where some pastor was just forced to resign. This scandal is ongoing and widespread. And to date, there has been no repentance and no reporting.Let me tell you what’s going on.The Word of God...

    9 min readLeadershipChurchLeadersArticles
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    You Want Proof?

    When it comes to choosing what we believe, the demand for proof is very reasonable; no one should be faulted for wanting that.Those who would say you just have to take it by faith shouldn't say that. It's not true. God offers proof.The revelation God gave doesn’t require a big...

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    Wiffle Ball Discipleship

    I'm sure you know what a wiffle ball is: a little, light plastic ball, full of holes, empty inside, enjoyed by the young, that won’t go very far.In every respect, there are discipleship efforts in our churches very much like this. Let’s consider how this might be so.First, there is—A...

    12 min readDiscipleshipArticlesChurchLeaders
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    The Prayer that Obtains

    How many times have you prayed once or twice and then, because there was no immediate answer, you either forgot about your prayer or gave up on it?Do this often enough and after a while you may neglect prayer altogether, except whenever an emergency arises.Jean Massillon spoke sternly of such...

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    Failure in Prayer

    Perhaps the major reason prayer fails is because we don’t understand faith. Faith has been heralded for its importance, trumpeted for its outcomes, lionized for its heroes, lauded for its accessibility, and subsequently summoned from every believer—but without explanation!To commend faith without explaining faith makes no sense. Let's make a...

    7 min readPrayerFaithHopeArticles
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    When My Prayers Seem Not to Work

    While the sweet prayer of a little child comes forth effortlessly at bedtime, it is a fact that when that child grows older, prayer becomes harder. There are many reasons for this, each needing to be examined with an agenda that seeks scriptural solutions.And how we do need those solutions!...

    4 min readPrayerArticles
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J.W. Phillips

I wrote an advanced discipleship series described on the OMEGA: Advanced Discipleship website. www.omegaadvanceddiscipleship.com