What Is Your Will In Christ?

“Where will this happen, Lord?” the disciples asked. Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.” Luke 17:37 (NLT) If you're around other people who have some familiarity with the bible, you may hear them talk about "last days", "prophecy" or "end times". And if you're not as familiar with the bible or biblical prophesy, you might be wondering what they're talking about and what it means. In short it might mean that they're talking about the signs that mark the end of life here as we've known it. But on the path that we walk through this life toward that end, there are also other signs that may not seem as intriguing, but they have critical value. They're signs we can't afford to miss. For some, the subject of the end of the world brings with it an anxiousness and a desire to change the subject with an unsettling dread to consider. For some kno...

Who are God's people?  Friends, if we're confessed followers of Christ, I think we should all be able to find ourselves fitting into many passages of the bible as though God were speaking to us directly at some point in our past, in our present and into our future ... because He has, He is and He will continue to do so until our time finally runs out. His passion for us and His desire to spare us from our own choices that we've made against Him hasn't changed. The bible is many things. Among other things, it's history, law and instruction, but ultimately it's Father God's passionate love letter to us, refining us and guiding us to where He is. “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you ...

  It'd be so easy to get caught up in it, to let our guard down and let 'em have it! We could parlay our own talents and intellect into a formidable weapon and strike back like they so desperately deserve ... but we know things.  We know that hate makes room for division, pride belongs to fools destined to fall, unrighteous anger makes a pathway for evil, lies used to promote anything are themselves an injustice, profane speech exemplifies a true lack of wisdom and the quest for justice by unjust methods are themselves a paradox of utter unjust foolishness ... yet these things are all in the air around us. They're employed heavily in the air around us while the prince of  the power of the air takes full advantage of both what and who's available to him. "... in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourse...