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How To Spot A Genuine Prophet

Stereotypes regarding prophetic ministry have existed for centuries. The tendency to determine what is or is not prophetic, or who is or is not a prophet by the mere presence or absence of a charismatic endowment, rather than inner alignment to kingdom truth, is unfortunate. It often carries tragic results.

The simplest definition of being prophetic is: hearing God and doing what He says!

Here are some qualities of bona fide new testament prophetic ministry from a new covenant and  Christ-centered perspective…

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Read more about the article The Sabbath Teaches Us Joy And Hope

The Sabbath Teaches Us Joy And Hope

Tim Keller explains that how the purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

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Your Beliefs Are The Most Important Thing About You

We fail to take risks because we believe our risks will fail; we fear honesty with friends because we think they will confirm our fears; we ignore concerns about church because we’re sure our concerns will be ignored; we remain entrapped in ruts because we’re certain our ruts have trapped us.

Our problems are not bad circumstances; our problems are what we do in response. And our response—what we do (or don’t)—is always determined by what we believe.

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Read more about the article He Who Justifies The Ungodly: A Story About Romans 4:5

He Who Justifies The Ungodly: A Story About Romans 4:5

I still thought I had to attain a certain spiritual level of awesomeness before I could really receive grace.

That was until I read Roman 4:5, which I’d read plenty of times before, but that particular night God made it jump out of the page: “and to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.” Romans 4:5

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What Is Christian Meditation And How Can It Help You Hear God?

Most people I know have an innate desire to hear God; actually, more than a desire, an intense longing. We want to connect with the divine, to somehow see the face of God, to touch and be touched. It’s inborn, an inherent ingredient of our humanity.

Christian meditation trains our ears to distinguish God’s voice—that one instrument—amidst the orchestra of others. And once we learn to recognize God’s voice, we begin to hear it “time and again, in various ways.”

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When Financial Stewardship Becomes Financial Worship

Perhaps a love of money has less to do with its presence or absence, and more to do with its hold in our hearts. Maybe it has less to do with whether we have more or less money, and more to do with whether our thoughts, conversations, and budgets are excessively focused on it.

Paul’s plea is a plea for contentment and simplicity, not for relentless counting, budgeting, and price-checking. The goal is not to have very little money, but to think little of money.

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Read more about the article Shane Claiborne Explains Why The Sermon On The Mount Needs No Explanation

Shane Claiborne Explains Why The Sermon On The Mount Needs No Explanation

Shane Claiborne was once invited to a conference as a speaker. For his speech, he simply read the whole Sermon on the Mount and then sat down. In this 4 minute video, he explains why he did that. Perhaps we lose the simplicity of the message as we try to explain it and embellish it. Maybe we need only ask what it would look like to believe what Jesus said. (more…)

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How To Spot A Religious Person

Randy Bohlender explains how a person with a religious spirit is someone who is hellbent on division.

They want to differentiate between your faith and theirs, and of course, theirs comes out on top. They need to delineate differences, they’re driven to accentuate distinctions rather than commonalities, and when they’ve decimated those on the edge of the herd, they’ll turn on one another.

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How To Overcome Sin

So often we tell the sinner to “Just stop sinning and repent.” And when he returns to his sin again, his shame grows more and more as he starts to think that Jesus doesn’t care for him because if He did then He would have completely removed this thorn. I hear you. Yours is a constant refrain that I hear from Christians of various backgrounds, “Maybe I am lost. Why can’t I just get over this?” I have been there myself.  “Why can’t I get over this?  Why are you not helping me God?”

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Learning From Weirdos: What Can Christians Of The Past Teach Us?

This is why I post articles on DailyEdify about people from Church history. We can learn a lot from disciples who have lived before us. This is not to say that they are flawless. In fact, many are really really weird and even experimented with heresy at times. And yet, it seems that God gave them something that is important for the rest of the Body to see. Thus, we try to learn what we can from such “weirdos” while not necessarily consuming every word they say as gospel truth. Be a discerning reader, but by all means, learn from those who have walked before us. This article says it well…

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10 Things To Know About Pentecostals Before You Call Them Crazy

If you happen to tune into the Oxygen network’s Preachers of L.A. or National Geographic Channel’s Snake Salvation, you might be tempted to believe all Pentecostals are either money-grubbing charlatans or misguided rural bumpkins. But the truth is never in the media stereotypes.

Some people think Pentecostals are brainless weirdos who go into uncontrollable fits during religious services. They’re surprised to learn we have advanced degrees, own businesses, hold public office and mobilize a lot of the world’s charitable work.

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Forgiveness Is Both Costly And Necessary

If you’ve ever really forgiven somebody, forgiven some real wrong, all forgiveness is suffering. If you say “I forgave and I didn’t suffer,” it wasn’t that serious a wrong. But if you have ever really been wronged, and if you have forgiven it, then you have suffered. Because all forgiveness is a form of suffering.

Forgiveness means we pay our betrayer’s debt.

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If Jesus Is A King, Then Shouldn’t He Have Servants?

How do you feel about being called a servant? How do you feel about being a “go-fer” —someone who does the little things, the difficult things? How do you feel about putting the needs of others ahead of your own?

One of the amazing things about the life of Jesus is that while no one else deserved to be served by others more than he did, he came not to be served, but to serve.

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Should Christians Practice Yoga?

Some questions we ask today would simply baffle our ancestors. When Christians ask whether believers should practice yoga, they are asking a question that betrays the strangeness of our current cultural moment — a time in which yoga seems almost mainstream in America.

It was not always so. The embrace of yoga is a symptom of our postmodern spiritual confusion, and, to our shame, this confusion reaches into the church.

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Remembering The Bread Of Presence When The King Seems Absent

That evening as they sat together at table, the mysterious Stranger took the bread, blessed and broke it, and, when he offered the bread…something incredible happened! For an instant the two disciples recognized the Stranger as…Jesus!…then he vanished! Poof! Gone! But the bread Jesus had been holding in his hands fell to the table. The blessed and broken bread hit the table in a most emphatic way! Jesus had been recognized for a fleeting moment, then he had vanished. But in his place the bread remained. Don’t miss that. The Bread Remained!

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See What Messianic Jewish Believers In Jesus Are Up To

Jesus was Jewish. I know, it’s shocking. What’s actually shocking is how quickly Christians forget this fact and forget the Hebrew roots of their faith.

What is encouraging is that a growing number of Jewish people are recognizing Jesus (Yeshua) as the Messiah and trusting him as their savior (Messianic Jews). These Jewish followers of Jesus are doing some wonderful and amazing work in the Body of Christ. The 3 minute video above is just a small taste of what this looks like. (more…)

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Read more about the article Evangelical Worship Is About To Crash And Go Boom

Evangelical Worship Is About To Crash And Go Boom

You’re not reading the ramblings of a curmudgeony guy complaining about all the new-fangled things the kids are doing these days, with their drums and tom-toms and electric geetars. You’re reading the heart-cry of a normal guy who’s worried about what worship leaders are doing to themselves and their congregations.

People are tuning out and giving up and just watching.

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Sabbath: The Gift Few Christians Accept

Shabbat Shalom! That’s what Jews around the world will be saying to one another today. They are preparing to observe the Sabbath.

Jesus said that the Sabbath was created for man, not man for the Sabbath. Consider the Sabbath a gift. We were offered a time to rest, recharge and worship God. We are offered this gift of rest, but we usually refuse it.

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If God Isn’t Your Employee, Then Why Do You Speak To Him As If He Is?

If I asked someone, “Do you think you know better than God?” I’m pretty sure most would say no. However, if you listen to their prayers it sounds more like a conversation between an employer and an employee than it does a servant to God.

My concern isn’t with “fix it” prayers in general. I’m concerned for a lot of Christians that are overly obsessed with “fix it” prayers and make no acknowledgment of God’s sovereignty or of His perfect purposes that typically work through our pain.

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God Could Have Left Job Alone | Bob Sorge

This 5 minute video tells the story of Bob Sorge’s world being torn apart by an injury. Through the ordeal he learns how to love God amid the confusion of not understanding God. His faith in God grows as he grapples with the tests in his life. He realizes that God’s mercy is evident when God does not leave us alone.

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Read more about the article When Mom Needs To Be The Spiritual Leader

When Mom Needs To Be The Spiritual Leader

The biblical vision of a godly man leading his wife and children simply was not a reality in my house. Given that reality, God called and used my mother to be the primary spiritual shepherd in my life, and I am forever grateful to her.

I have been in two families with spiritually passive men, the home I grew up in, and then my own home for the first ten years of our marriage. I was the passive man. Functionally, my wife was the spiritual leader, because I was sinfully overcommitted to my work at church.

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6 Things To Know About Walking In The Spirit

In my 43 years of ministry, 29 of those spent in the ministry of healing, I have taken more than 5,000 people all over the world, teaching and ministering healing, and I have seen this transformation happen over and over again. I have seen God take ordinary believers and transform them into ministers of the gospel who walk confidently in the power of the Spirit with miracles, signs and wonders following.

I want to share with you a few lessons I’ve learned on how this happens so you can experience this transformation too.

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Sunday Sermon: How Fatherhood Affects Prayer

Happy father’s day. Even though this may be a Hallmark holiday, it’s still a fine occasion to give special attention to fatherhood. In this 9 minute video, Mark Driscoll explains how fatherhood offers a unique lens through which to view our relationship with The Father. This perspective change will cause us to call out to The Father and encourage prayer.

Note: Regardless of your opinion of Mark Driscoll as a person in light of recent controversy, this message is still timely and important.

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Read more about the article See What Spiritual Revival Looked Like In Colonial America

See What Spiritual Revival Looked Like In Colonial America

This 6 minute video explains the roles of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield in America’s First Great Awakening. See how God used these men to deliver a message of repentance and rebirth during a tumultuous time in American history. Their work resulted in a vast wave of conversions. Some call it revival. Historians refer to this time period as the First Great Awakening. Oh that such a move of God would sweep our country once more!

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I’ll Accept Your Fellowship, But You Can Keep The Guilt Trip

I once believed that warming a seat in a religious meeting was directly related to one’s relationship with God.

I don’t religiously attend any religious service. I am an irreligious Christian. I occasionally attend a church service in a building with members of my family. When I am invited, I speak inside buildings solely dedicated to a physically organized church. But my allegiance is only to Jesus. All buildings, earthly ministries (including the one in which I am involved), congregations and denominations lag far behind my devotion to Jesus.

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Scripture Memorization Molds The Man

In this 5 minute video, Gary George offers a compelling reason for why Christians should diligently memorize Scripture. If we want to speak truth and make it go forth, then we first have to know the truth. The mouthpieces of God must have the word of God stored up inside of them.

Really, the most compelling part of Gary’s argument is the fact that he quotes from memory about 50 different passages in the 5 minutes he’s talking. Click below to watch.

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How To Perform Spiritual Adoption

This man, Randy, stood up after I gave my testimony and made a public declaration of “spiritual adoption”. What Randy and his wife Judy did was publicly declare me their son, at least in the spiritual sense.  That means, on a practical level, that they declared their intentions to treat me as if I were one of their own children.  They publicly declared that they would show me the love and affection a parent has for a child.

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What Would Jesus Tatoo?

For someone who is a follower of Jesus I believe one of the most powerful things that they can do is to tell their story. The most difficult part of this task though is to tell the parts that we do not want to tell. There are generally two reasons for this.

The first is that we have forgotten them. Humans have an uncanny habit of using their current position both geographically and relationally as their sole point of reference.

The second is that when referencing our past there are quite a few things that if mentioned are not the most flattering to our own personal glorification.

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How Hospitality Reveals The Kingdom

Alton Brown shares some great insights about hospitality in this 2 minute video. Granted, he is not speaking of hospitality with reference to application in the Christian life, but pay close attention to his points because he is not not far from the kingdom (see Mark 12:34). Christians would do well to take his thoughts on hospitality to heart. If we approached hospitality this way, then we might find that it is an important means for inviting people into the kingdom. Consider how often we see Jesus sharing a meal with people. What if this wasn’t the backdrop for presenting the Gospel, but the meal itself was the presentation of the Gospel? (more…)

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Did We Ever Graduate From Children’s Church?

I think the well-intentioned efforts to meet the worship needs of children has contributed to an increasing trend toward a narcissistic faith. The children have their own worship service separate from the adults. The rise of youth-focused programs in the 1930s and 40s eventually contributed to a kind of Christianity lite, today. In many churches today, the point is more about having my needs met rather than cultivating a life of service to God and others for God’s sake.

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You Don’t Have To Be Pentecostal To Love Pentecost

Today is the second day of the festival of Pentecost (a.k.a. Shavuot). It behooves Christians to know what this festival is and why it matters.

Paul said in Colossians 2:16-17 that the Jewish feasts and celebrations were a shadow of the things to come through Jesus Christ. And though as Christians we may not commemorate these holidays in the traditional biblical sense, as we discover the significance of each, we will certainly gain a greater knowledge of God’s Word, an improved understanding of the Bible, and a deeper relationship with the Lord.

Celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover, Shavuot is traditionally a joyous time of giving thanks and presenting offerings for the new grain of the summer wheat harvest in Israel.

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New Birth And Unexpected Bedfellows

If you would have told me when I was a teenager that my wife would have seven tattoos, a history in drugs, alcohol, and attending heavy metal concerts, I would have laughed at you, given you one of my courtship books, and told you to take a hike.  My plans were much different, much more nuanced with careful planning, much more clean-cut, and much more, well, about me.

This isn’t my dream – it’s better.

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Bringing Back The Family Meal

In recent years, sociologists and educators across the political spectrum have encouraged families to do one simple thing to maintain connection with one another: eat. The issue isn’t just eating, of course. That’s a non-negotiable for all biological organisms. The issue instead is to eat together. The family dinner might seem cute and outdated in a mobile, crazy-busy current age, but there’s something of importance here.

The church isn’t an association of like-minded individuals. The church is a household of brothers and sisters. In order to get community right, we must reclaim communion.

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Hijacking The Conversation With God

Are we meant to relate to God in a conversational manner, or by monologuing? When we ask questions of him, do we really believe he can or will answer? If not, why not? Are we even open to the possibility that he might question our questions?

God is always offering more than we ask or think. We just miss it. He really does think outside the box, so his answers often lay outside the little cubicles of our questions.

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Keeping Up With The Joneses

Colin Jones offers some good thoughts about how we measure ourselves against our peers in a struggle to gain superiority and identity.

“And that’s really what any of our comparisons are: gold-plated velcro shoes. They are absurd forms of identity. The problem is that seeing our forms of comparison as absurd won’t solve the deeper issue. The deeper issue is that we are living in a self-centered reality. As long as I’m the center of my existence, it REALLY matters that I am worthy.”

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Why Drive-By Charity Is Toxic

When God wanted to save the world, he didn’t use a ballot measure or a give-a-thon or a shortcode or a ridiculously large styrofoam check. Instead, he sent his son, who was named Emmanuel—God with us. God didn’t give a check; He gave a person. Love incarnate moved into the neighborhood and lived next door for 33 years. And before He left the earth, He promised that eventually we will all get to move into his neighborhood and live next door to Him without ever having to move away.

 

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How To Make Your Stuff Meaningful

Donald Miller explains how material possessions do not necessarily have to be mere “stuff.” Instead, stuff can be stewarded intentionally to help people understand the goodness and generosity of God.

“I once heard Dallas Willard say that we have been asked to rule for God, under God. I loved that picture. I get to manage God’s house for God, according to the desire of His heart, that many lives would be saved, enriched with meaning and special moments and community.”

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Is Radical Christianity Biblical Christianity?

We don’t like Paul’s call to be radical because it is a lot easier to love the lost whom we haven’t seen than our wife who we see every day. We don’t like it because forgiveness is hard and fornication is easy. We don’t like it because we would rather be known for doing something amazing than be obscure and keep the peace. We don’t like it because he says a lot about submission and nothing about evangelizing the ladies at Starbucks. In the end, those calls to be radical aren’t radical at all. They are just a distraction.

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Why Work? by Dorothy Sayers

The profoundly talented writer, Dorothy Sayers, offers her insights on work and vocation. In a day when many view work as drudgery and a necessary evil, Mrs. Sayers sees it as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God’s image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing.

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The Real Truth About Your Dirt

“I showered at the barn already. I just have to change out of these clothes.”

“Levi, son.” I lay my hand on his shoulder —

“You need to go look in the mirror.”

“Oh. Guess I didn’t get my face?”

“Guess I am still dirtier than I thought.”

I fold laundry. Still dirtier than I thought. I put another load in. Levi runs the shower.

Our hands are so stained with sin, that even our best works can leave traces of dirty prints.

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Whom Will You Serve?

Service necessarily implies one person attending to the needs or desires of another. If I pour myself a cup of coffee, I am serving no one. There is no such thing as self-serve, not at a gas station, a yogurt shop, or in life. Rejecting all masters and choosing autonomy is really just one of the contemporary “gods” of self-indulgence. Not that this is new. The me generation is not just one generation. It is as old as humanity.

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The Nice Christian Coward

Nowhere in scripture will you find the command: “Go ye into all the world and be nice.”

Christian niceness is neither Christian nor nice, just like Grape Nuts is neither grape nor nuts. Jesus was direct. He showed no hint of vague, spineless, “I don’t want to hurt your feelings,” niceness. To the woman caught in adultery, he said she had sinned. Black and white. Clear. Unambiguous.

Jesus also spoke with grace. He said to the same woman, “Neither do I condemn you.”

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If It Hurts, Embrace It

Pushing ourselves to emotional, physical, and spiritual brinks provides us with increased strength and knowledge of the reality of our current beliefs and what we are fit to accomplish. My wife did more than either of us originally wanted her to or expected her capable of, and she showed herself to be a hero of mine. Our son’s life is the memorial of his mother’s strength.

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Cracked Jars and Golden Scars

The religious ego — our ‘inner Pharisee’ — demands perfection, is embarrassed by our failings and punishes us for them with self-loathing. Co-opting the God-given conscience, it ascends to the judgment seat reserved for Christ alone and points the accusing finger of condemnation. The fruit is anxiety, shame and an intense desire to shrink back, to burrow into the mud and hide out our years. It reminds us of our inadequacy and sets up this ordinance of hypocrisy: “Your failings disqualify you — how dare you ‘let your light so shine before men,’ knowing that your life is unworthy of the message you carry.” The religious ego would humiliate us into a shroud of perpetual silence.

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