Even though it is frustrating, this was also a funny thing that happened as I have been developing the Come Follow Me sites. Yesterday, I developed an advertisement for Facebook based on Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 5:43-48 to love your enemies. Facebook rejected the ads on the grounds of their dating policy. HA! When I […]
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Baptism in the Name of Jesus
I have recently had some conversations with some friends within our discipleship network about baptism. A video, in fact, was sent to me with a teaching on why we should baptize in the name of Jesus instead of in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as Jesus says in Matthew […]
Throughout the scriptures, whether in Jesus’s teachings, in the first church, or in the subsequent efforts from the apostle Paul, we can see that discipleship of Jesus leads to starting churches. Jesus’s teaching If we return to see how Jesus taught his disciples in the parable of the sower, we see that the parable ends […]
Jesus said that, because he was given all authority on heaven and earth, his disciples should therefore go and make disciples for him among all of the nations. He didn’t call us to go make converts or believers. Instead, he said that we are to go make disciples. I believe that this is a core […]
Jesus said something that I believe is very important as we think about people coming to Christ and new communities of believers beginning to form. Jesus said: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day…” John 6:44 As we have […]
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Praying for Grandchildren – Pt. 3
So as I wrapped up my session talking about birthing spiritual grandchildren (see the previous posts on part 1 and part 2), we moved to Matthew 13. We read verses 1-9: That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got […]
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The Father’s Heart – Part 1
God, as our Heavenly Father, has a heart that loves and beats for each of us. From the day that Adam and Eve disobeyed God, he has been working to provide us redemption and bring us back to himself. God is, himself, our redeemer. God plan culminated in Jesus, who was sent to earth to […]
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What Does Jesus Want From Me?
A couple of weeks ago, I had someone ask me this question. He is a pretty new believer and has been surprised that there are scriptures that record that Jesus, for example, commanded us to go and make disciples. He was saying that it seemed to him that Jesus is trying to tell him that […]
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How did Jesus fulfill the law?
For many years, really until just recently, I have never really quite understood what Jesus meant when he said that he came to fulfill the law. Toward the beginning of the sermon on the mount, here is what he said: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I […]
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Obeying Jesus’s Commands – Do Not Lust
One of the most powerful forces that we can experience is our sexuality. When God told us to be fruitful and multiply across the face of the earth, He certainly gave us the capability to do that and the desire to take the sexual actions required to make that work! But like many things, we […]