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One Way To Conquer Satan Is Through Our Story: Part 2
Reclaim Your Story In part one of this blog, I focused on our testimony as it relates to our own sinful past. Part two focuses on our testimony as it relates to sins that were committed against us. We have all suffered from other people’s sins. Our lives here on earth...
One Way to Conquer Satan is Through Our Story: Part 1
What’s Your Story? What comes to mind when you think about your life history? Are there certain events that stand out? Abuse? Sin struggles? Or maybe you prefer to block it out altogether. What if you started thinking about your story in terms of redemption? What has...
We All Have Something Eternally Valuable to Offer for the Common Good
We all have something to offer. From the moment of redemption in Christ Jesus, we have been brought from the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Light. We have been born again and made new spiritually, but we have also been born into a new family, the body of...
Who is the hero in your story and life?
So often it is easy to rely too heavily on someone or something other than God and develop a very unhealthy dependency, possibly even creating an idol in our life. We all have a tendency to do it. Personally, I have been guilty of making someone or something other...
Beware! The narrative rolling around in your head isn’t always the truth.
Are you tired from getting outsmarted in prayer by Satan?
Spiritual Sterility and Boredom Are Not Gifts of the Spirit
Bored? Fruitless? Jesus? Really? If you’re BORED with your Christian life, then I can promise you – you aren’t living the version of Christianity found on the pages of the Bible. If you’re FRUITLESS in your Christian walk, then I can promise you – you aren’t following...
The “We” Part of “Well” Really Does Matter
Any group or church can call itself Christian. That doesn’t mean anything. It can be all talk, womp-womp-womp, with no real evidence of Jesus or the cultural values of Heaven operating in and through them. But there’s also no truly Christian group or church that’s...
We’ve seen turbulence and miracles, and The Well is STILL HERE!
2020 was a GREAT year, right?
2020 was a GREAT year, right? If we understand our salvation through the lens of conformity to Christ, then 2020 should have been a seriously GREAT year for us Christians. 2020 provided lots of opportunities to SEE the ugly in ourselves and lots of opportunities to...
Don’t Be Too Easily Satisfied
Where our comfort zone ends, the will of God begins We are creatures of comfort and habit. And since we love our suffering, testing and trial free zones, we are easily lulled into being content with the status quo of our religious traditions and habits. If we were to...