Apprentice 2 Jesus

Holy Spirit

  • Something or Someone WILL Own You

    Slave to sin… or slave to righteousness? Either way, you’re owned. Something vies for control. Something vies for allegiance. Christ has come to set us free. That freedom leads to new “ownership.” The terms of slavery are used, but freedom is found in the new “ownership.” We are headed into the Pentecost Sunday. It is… Read more

  • Are You Dead Yet?

    One of my favorite fun movies is Cool Runnings. It’s a comedy about the Jamaican bobsled team. When the team would crash in practice, the driver would ask, “Sanka, are you dead, mon?” He would answer, “Yeah, mon.” We need to remember this as believers. We need to realize we are dead to the old… Read more

  • Quit Hanging Around the Corpse

    We have a fascination with death, being dead, being undead, etc. I am not even going to attempt to categorize any of it because I pay very little attention to it and all I will get are comments about how I mis-categorized something. My point is this: we need to quit hanging around the corpse.… Read more

  • Don’t Move Until You Get It

    Several years ago there was a movie called Searching for Bobby Fischer, about a chess whiz kid named Josh Waitzkin. In one scene, the chess tutor gives Josh a scenario and tells him, “Don’t move until you see it.” He was telling Josh, “There is victory for you in this situation. It’s several steps away,… Read more

  • It’s Pentecost

    Next Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. It’s about the only time the Church is somewhat focused on the member of the Trinity we really don’t understand. So… we don’t talk about the Spirit much. If you’re Pentecostal, you are defined by the events of Acts 2, but still may not have a grasp on just WHO… Read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill on Revival

    Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. – Leonard Ravenhill 6 Won’t you bring us back to life again so that your people can rejoice in you? (Psalm 85:6, CEB) Read more

  • Shredding the Word of God

    20 After leaving the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe, they went to the king’s court and told him everything. 21 The king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he retrieved it from the room of Elishama the scribe. Then Jehudi read it to the king and all his royal officials who were standing next… Read more

  • What Distinguishes Us – People of the Presence

    12 Moses said to the LORD, “Look, you’ve been telling me, ‘Lead these people forward.’ But you haven’t told me whom you will send with me. Yet you’ve assured me, ‘I know you by name and think highly of you.’ 13 Now if you do think highly of me, show me your ways so that… Read more

  • When We’re Not Effective… We Argue

    In Mark 9 Jesus comes down from the Mount of Transfiguration with Peter, James, and John. He finds the rest of his disciples in an argument with the legal experts. 14 When Jesus, Peter, James, and John approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them and legal experts arguing with them. 15… Read more

  • Do We Quit Too Soon?

    18 Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” so Joash took them. Elisha then said to Israel’s king, “Hit the ground with them!” Joash hit the ground three times and stopped. 19 The man of God became angry with him. He said, “If only you had struck five or six times, you would have finished the… Read more