I love my friend, Larry Shallenberger’s paragraph in this post, about the danger of “Christian Church Culture”. He likens God’s transforming process to that of amechanic restoring an old motorcycle, believing that the old rusted bike has its best years ahead of it. We religious people, meanwhile, tend to handle each other like airport luggage handlers. This leads to the false belief that its better to lower our heads and fit in. Lower our heads and fit in. Covertly demand that, as... Read more
(En Español) A religion without love is an abomination to God. The church needs to learn that God desires love and compassion, not merely an adherence to ritual and sacrifice. Thus, Jesus said His Father’s house would be a “house of prayer for all the nations” (Mark 11:17). True prayer is born of love and comes in the midst of sin and need. It comes not to condemn, but to cover. All nations sin. All cultures have seasons of moral... Read more
We know from Scripture that with unity there is a multiplication of spiritual authority. There is the Biblical testimony that one can put a thousand to flight, but two can put ten thousand to flight. The Lord also taught that if any two could agree, then it would be done for them. Of course, this agreement is more than just an intellectual assent to a matter; rather it implies an actual and deep union between the two. This takes an... Read more
You may think that today is just another day in your life, and yet is is so much more. Today is a gift that has been given to you, and gratefulness is the only way to respond to it. Look at this day as the first day of the rest of your life, understanding that tomorrow is never a guarantee. Everything that happens today will never happen again. The people, the smiles, the touches, and the presence you experience in... Read more
Christianity got prostituted when people were told that they had to save their own souls. Saving ones soul as defined by men and their systems is completely different than falling in love with God. The systems may give you 10 or 613 steps to holiness, but outside of love, they all become impossible and unprofitable. Because people were told to save their souls, many became steeped in fruitless traditions and works that affirmed a false self. Unhealthy conservatism is incapable... Read more
(En Español) Rarely does a night pass without my wife and I praying for the Muslim world, and increasingly so for Iran. We are praying in agreement with millions of other Christians around the world. I’m sure everyone knows that the world is moving toward a pivotal juncture in time. Iran’s leaders are aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons while simultaneously pledging to destroy Israel. Israel, on the other hand, has sworn that Iran will not get nuclear weapons. The watching world... Read more
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule . . . “ Genesis 1:26 NIV What is the purpose of business? Many would respond that the purpose of business is to make money. While profit is one of the results of business, is it really the purpose of business? Or consider the possibility that the purpose of business is to promote social good. For example, there is much fanfare around the... Read more
I met Shaun Canon in Los Angeles at the Kingdom Economic Yearly Summit. He is a talented soulful singer, hard-hitting pianoman, and a cinematically innovative songwriter. He composed an original song that will be featured on a Pepsi commercial, performed with teen sensation Greyson Chance, Won a Gold AVA award as co-producer of the TV show “Vivir Bailando”, performed for President George W Bush, wrote the theme song for Shadow Complex (top selling and award-winning video game of 2009), placed... Read more
“He looked for a City which had foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:10). It is a question that has been asked countless times on adventurous treks across great distances throughout the history of travel, “Are we there yet?” Some trips seem to take forever, and so the question is repeated incessantly by some whining soul stuck in the back seat, while a besieged dad furrows his brow and a long-suffering mom rolls her eyes — “Are we there... Read more
We have been created for contentment, peace, and joy in whatever condition of life we are experiencing. This can only happen supernaturally through faith in a God who is always with us and who will never leave us. Faith in a God who gives us the ability to accept the things we cannot change, and a God who gives us strength, wisdom, and courage to change the things we can. There are things in life we will never change and... Read more
Robert Ricciardelli
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