Words Matter – Ben’s Healing School – S10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCIWFjiUC-k Last week we focused on one thing from the story of the woman with the issue of blood. We looked at what ‘receive’ ment for her. Remember the two examples - a passive reception - like when granny gives you that gift on Christmas morning and the active - go after it with all [...]

Ben’s Healing School – Session 4 – I Will, Be Clean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofbL42YYktU Show notes: The video starts with a couple of great testimonies. People are starting to put into practice what we are learning and it’s making a difference in people’s lives. Here are the ten reasons to major on Faith that I borrowed from brother Dan Maio. 1. Without faith, it is impossible to please [...]

Do You Have Christmas Sermon Faith?

I’ve been going to church at Christmas time for 62 years now. Admittedly one of those years I was in utero. None the less, figuring a minimum of four Christmas sermons a year, not including Sunday evening services which were a thing for my first couple decades and allowing for Sundays with programs instead of [...]

The Faith Two-Step

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house--whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. - Hebrews 3:6 The book of Hebrews offers us some controversial and sobering ideas. I find many in Christian circles have no place for conditional statements [...]

AN ORDINARY DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENT

- A day in the life of the women with the issue of blood AN ORDINARY DAY MEETS A DIVINE INTERRUPTION - Part 2 In the story of the women with the issue of blood, we find a nameless and anonymous woman who has struggled with a serious condition for 12 years of her life. [...]

Provision

So Ben, What’s God talking to you about? God's been talking to me about provision but from a strange place. In Matthew 4 after Jesus is baptized by John in the Jordan, the Spirit leads Him into the wilderness to be tempted. And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son [...]

Drifters

Hebrews teems with promises and encouragements, wonderful reminders and strong theology. But it also holds a number of stern warnings. With the promises, it delivers consequences that need to be reckoned with. When taken as a whole, the book disrupts any leanings we have toward universalism and even shines the spotlight on eternal security for [...]

Hostility: A Profile

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; - Romans 8:6-7 Hostile–not exactly a passive kind of word. What does this hostility–this warfare look like? In what way does my wandering mind [...]