Until we become the answer to our own prayers by making the choice to get involved in the lives of those who live around us, we are not yet a part of God's mission to the heartrending and often silent cries of harassed and helpless people in need of God who live all around us.

I hope you will travel with me down the dusty roads of Israel with Jesus, learning from the Master Fisherman.

We will never know what it is like to lead people to Christ, watch him heal, or see him deliver people from oppression, unless we are willing to take the "risk" of using our God-given authority.

Like an insecure battered wife who returns to her abusive husband over and over again only to suffer further beatings, we cannot keep going back to the the Law in an effort to be "good enough." It cannot help us.

Sometimes it is helpful to be able to define what is a local church, especially in the context of rapidly expanding church planting operations that sometimes take place in areas where the Holy Spirit is gathering a mass harvest of souls. The following is my attempt to do just that.

How could the sins of those long dead, such as King David, and the sins of all who would later be born be included in what Jesus did on the cross, unless it was an eternal once-for-all sacrifice?

Keeping the Sabbath in the New Covenant means resting in Christ's finished work on the cross while consciously attempting to live in obedience to the Bible's teachings and the voice of God’s Spirit.

It is impossible to understand the New Covenant without understanding what happens to us when we are born again.

Let us not forget that healing people is God's idea, not ours. He is far more interested in setting people free than we are. We need to get in step with him.

If we want to join our Lord in the ministry of healing, it is important for us to think as he does.