Living as Christ means being filled with the same Spirit that filled Jesus. The Holy Spirit that makes Jesus and His Father one, makes us one with the Father, and fuses believers into one Body. You and I are in the Father and the Father is in us. This is the eternal unity that Jesus gives us. We can live in communion with the Father as Jesus did, and become His expressed presence on earth as it is in heaven. Read more

Donald Miller says the message of God is more than a 3 or 4-step program. My friend Greg and I have been talking quite a bit about what it means to follow Jesus. Greg would not consider himself as somebody who takes Jesus seriously, but he admits to having questions. I didn’t have a formula for him to understand how a Christian conversion works, but I told him that many years ago, when I was a child, I had heard... Read more

Natural and Spirit life are ever so close. It is in the harmony of both that brings our existence to eternal significance. Even the most basic of acts can have eternal impact, and the Spirit of God empowers us to be moved towards significant acts of love. How we perceive eternity is how we will engage with life and love. How we then live becomes a good measure of the value and love we place on God and His ways. Read more

Robert Ricciardelli: Your Destiny is Assured in Him: He is Using the Tough Seasons to Grow Us Up.   From the desk of Steve Shultz: What an encouraging word of our destiny being “in Him” by Robert Ricciardelli. I felt Robert preaching this message as I was reading through it! Our destiny is assured in Him as the title suggests, nothing can change that. He uses the tough seasons to grow and stretch us, doesn’t He?  Blessings,Steve Shultz, Founder and... Read more

Too often, churches and ministry organizations allow themselves to be distracted by things other than the real issue. The real issue may be a key problem they need to face or a key opportunity for advancement they should explore. A crucial role of the leader is to focus attention on the real issue at the time. Healthy leaders help people to face reality and to change their beliefs, values, attitudes and actions in order to deal with the real problems... Read more

Sunday, July 25, 2010 Transformational Cloak by Robert Ricciardelli Being a believer means being clothed by God. The cloak of His presence heals, delivers, and brings total transformation. It gives one the ability to declare death to selfish ways and to say, “I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me” Christ continues to reveal Himself through us so that the way, the truth, and the life,... Read more

Being a believer means being clothed by God. The cloak of His presence heals, delivers, and brings total transformation. It gives one the ability to declare death to selfish ways and to say, “I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me” Christ continues to reveal Himself through us so that the way, the truth, and the life, is becoming Christ. Read more

“Trust in the Lord with all you heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). Here is how The Message puts it — “Trust GOD from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for GOD’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to GOD! Run from evil! Your body will glow with... Read more

We miss our true identity when we see Jesus as historic or inspiring rather than the reality of Christ in us, desiring and empowering us to be like Him. Jesus the Beloved Son of God came to reveal to us that we too are God’s beloved children. One of life’s greatest challenges is to claim the identity of Jesus for ourselves daily and be able to say: “We are the living Christ that reveal His love to the world today!” Read more

The spirit of rejection is no respecter of persons. Rejection is a universal experience that manifests itself to some degree in the life of every one of us. When we are dealing with rejection, it is hard to see the truth. It works like dark sunglasses that subtly, or significantly, color everything in our field of vision. We then respond to this filtered reality as if it were truth: No one understands me. No one sees me the way I... Read more