Tag: Kingdom solutions
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Gathering of Misfits #2: Coming Soon!
Introduction With the end of October, I have come to the end of the first month of the successful publication of my first Gathering of Misfits novels. That book depicts my vision for a Kingdom monastic community and its planting in a neighborhood rife with prostitution and gang dominance. With the coming of November, I Read more
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Faith: What God Wants Most from People
Introduction What is faith? Why do Jesus, Paul, and others make such a big deal about people having it? Followers of God’s Anointed have debated and struggled with these questions for many centuries. I have concluded that faith is what the Creator desires from people most of all. I call faith “trusting obedience”. This avoids Read more
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Do for Others What You Want Done for You
Introduction Tim Mackie’s Bible Project series of teachings on Abraham brought out an interesting principle in the story of the patriarch’s stopover with King Abimelech of Gerar (Abraham Deceives Abimelech). The principle: Do for others what you want done for you. The Opening of Wombs When Abraham took his wife and household south between Kadesh Read more
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New Birth Is a Result of Obedience
Introduction Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians and many others say that getting “saved” – being born again – is the most important thing about relating to God. Actually, the new birth is a result of obedience. Jesus Told Only One about the New Birth When Nicodemus met with Jesus secretly, at night, the Master told him, Read more
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Spiritual Body of Jesus
Introduction A fundamental teaching of the Good News of God’s Kingdom is that God the Son lived on the Earth in a human body. He obeyed God the Father perfectly and fulfilled His purpose for being here. This included sacrificing that body to redeem all of Humanity and rising again to give His life to Read more
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Make It a Series
Introduction I have turned my attention from the story of an AI persona who joins a single men’s household in an ecclesia community. It is more relevant today to write about another such community but one made up of misfits in cohousing in an apartment building. I also found I was pouring out so much Read more
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U.S. Is Headed for Chaos
Things Going Bad in Society The U.S. is headed for chaos. Our government no longer represents nor follows the will of the people. The present regime unjustly prosecutes people who speak out and oppose their dictates. The government allows illegal people to immigrate and settle in like parasites in a body. Anti-American Marxists, Woke ideologues, Read more
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Progressive Truths for God’s People 2
My Message to a Small Group of Believers This blog post is Part 2 of the write-up of a message I gave to a small group of believers who meet regularly in an older couple’s home. I concluded the message of progressive truths for God’s people 2 by talking about Kingdom communities. Kingdom Communities My Read more