On my recent trip to Thailand, Pastor Simon Wilson, a brother from the Royal Family International taught on the parables of Jesus Christ, and how we have misunderstood them. I give him credit for this insight. Matthew 13:45 – 46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when…
“It’s a relationship, which involved two people, there are going to be different perspectives on the same thing.” — Brook Potter There are many passages in the bible that are contradictory, if not understood in the proper context. In my previous article, about “who are the Children of God,” I talked about Jesus undoing the…
“The day I realized that I could not tell my congregation that I was hurting, was the day I realized I built an institution around myself rather than a family in Christ. If I couldn’t be open and honest, why would anyone else be?” — Ex Mega Church Pastor. For many years of my Christian walk, I…
Sooner or later, in the discourse of the message of grace, 1 John 1:9 comes into the discussion concerning confession and forgiveness. The question is, Does God require that we confess sin before He can forgive us of those sins? Or have all sins been forgiven at the cross because of the blood of Jesus?…
Romans 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. My friend Brandon Lee, as well as a few others, has described mercy and grace in this way: If you are speeding on the nation’s roads, and the police pull you over for speeding and does not give you…
“How can you disappoint a God who knows everything before you do it?” – Brook Potter Growing in the Grace and the knowledge of God is the best part of the walk as a believer. Jesus said that he is the vine, and we are the branches. The nature of a branch is not to…
“When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.” — John G Lake I was having lunch with my father and step mother the other day, and I explained a very…
1 Timothy 4:10 (King James Version) For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. At the preaching of the finished work of the Cross, there sometimes arises those who believe we are preaching no more than universalism;…
“My Righteousness is Just as Good as Jesus’ Righteousness, because it IS Jesus’ Righteousness!” — E.W. Kenyon When Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome, the Apostle Paul hatched a Plan. He traveled amongst the Churches and recruited seven men (Acts 21:8) to train in Ephesus (1 Timothy 1:3) for an ambitious task of starting a…
“Sin will never be able to be solved by anything you can do enough of [including trying not to sin], Sin can only be solved by trusting in a redemptive act of God.” — John Lynch. As a minister who preaches the finished work of the Cross, I am constantly bombarded by religious mind-sets. The…
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. There were two people in the Bible that Jesus commended for their great faith, both of them Gentiles without a covenant with God. When I…
“Jesus Kept and Taught the Law, Shared Grace through Parables and Prophesy and Demonstrated the Kingdom until his Death, when he satisfied the Law and could now speak to us plainly.” – Brook Potter I very often point out the mixed message of the body of believers we have in the church today. On many…