Apprentice 2 Jesus

spiritual warfare

  • Setting people free and spiritual warfare against systems

    Acts 16:16-34 Paul and Silas are in Philippi. A small group of believers has formed and Paul is teaching them the way of Christ. Powers are being stirred. Read more

  • The cultivated presence of God

    This trip back through Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton has been slower. I’ve picked it up to read just a few pages, then put it down for awhile as I pondered something or I went back to reading other material. This past week I was walking through a difficult spiritual battle and picked up… Read more

  • The root of war

    “We have only to open our eyes and look about us to see what our sins are doing to the world, and have done. But we cannot see. We are the ones to whom it is said by the prophets of God: ‘Hearing hear, and understand not; and see the vision, and know it not.”… Read more

  • Spiritual Warfare in the time of coronavirus

    10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. (Eph. 6:10-11) The old joke goes something like this: There are those who make things happen. There are those who see things happen. There are those… Read more

  • The constant battle of faith

    I have returned to a devotional book reflecting on the writings of early church fathers and monks. Spiritual giants. It is a slow walk because every paragraph, at times, causes me to stop and catch my spiritual breath.  Read more

  • The real war

    So, gear up. The battle rages. It is constant. You will not become weary. Christ is your strength. Read more

  • Through the battle into abundance

    The promises the Lord gives are powerful. The enemy wants those promises undelivered so he battles. Read more

  • The people who know their God

    I’ve been meditating on the thought of the Daniel Generation that started HERE. The foundation to all of it is we must know God. If we do not truly know God, if we are not grounded in him, the American Church will head into a new “Dark Ages.”  Not “America.” The American Church.  As I have tried to prepare… Read more

  • Culture of death

    When I watch people say incredibly threatening things to a dentist who hunts a lion… (which, by the way, would be terroristic threats in some other situations)… and then say NOTHING when videos are shown of Planned Parenthood doctors talking of selling off body parts (or worse, defending the actions as “legal”)… and when I… Read more

  • The toleration we have for “the devil we know”

    Mark 5:1-20 tells the story of the demoniac in the Gerasene region. What strikes me each time I read this story is the toleration the villagers had for the bondage this man was under and when he was actually made whole, they wanted Jesus out of the region. They had “the devil they knew” and… Read more