Let's wrap up this season with the concept of a Powerful Servant. We see this example in the Apostle Paul as his examples of servanthood rewrote major life stages of people he spends time with. Servanthood is a powerful position, if you understand it properly. You become a...
It's like we've been on this long hike up a set of hills and have finally come to the peak. Time to sit a while, open the canteen, break out some food and enjoy the view from here. In the past 30 episodes we have walked with the Apostle Paul,...
Today, the real battle is not church growth, financial growth or personal growth. It's church health, financial health and personal health. Healthy things grow. That's just what they do....
As believers we all know how important it is to claim our spiritual inheritance as God's children. It's a good practice to train our minds to believe that, "We are strong in him, because he is our strength." In this passage the Apostle Paul shares a gem of a thought...
Parenting is one of the most meaningful undertakings in anyone's life. It has moments of glory. Days of routine and some of the deepest trials you can ever experience as an adult. In the end it's more than worth it and the journey alone makes life more worthwhile....
In this Thread Paul talks about the supernatural gifts of God that come by grace to all of us, gifts of power for ministry to set others free and he links these gifts to a pain we struggle with personally. Our status comes from our success, but our ability to minister...
In this day of clergy scandals it is appropriate to ask who we should follow as our spiritual leaders. Some say, "No one but Jesus," but that doesn't really solve the problem because parents still need their kids to follow them or they can't parent, and the same throughout all...
Stories of religious abuse fill tabloids regularly. Religious abuse is a fact and rather than denying it, we need to learn to identify characteristics of abusive church leaders and either remove them from leadership or at least remove ourselves from the damage they can cause. ...
What's the difference between status and authority and how do you know if you have the true spiritual authority or just status? Tune in to this episode of Thread and find out as we explore 2 Corinthians 10.7-18....
The good news is that we have been given a case of spiritual weapons, forged by God himself. These weapons have divine authority to demolish strongholds and take every thought captive until we live with the mind of Christ with our lives fully aligned with God's will for us and...