Be more Occupied With Jesus than For Jesus

Quote: “It is more important to be occupied with Jesus than to be occupied for Jesus.” – J Dwight Pentecost. Amen to that! Being occupied with Jesus daily in worship, prayer, Bible reading and study makes being occupied for Jesus a glorious blessing, not a task or some kind of obligation. I’m noticing an increase …

There’s God-given Authority and there’s Boldness!

The preacher said to his congregation, “Church people don’t believe God anymore so they’ve lost their God-given authority.” When I think of that living and powerful word that God has given the Church; when I look at the command, authority and promises of the word that Jesus gave His disciples and then look at the state of the …

Nothing More than a Religious Figurehead

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting mental pictures of people in church attendance on a Sunday morning.  During praise and worship there’s more than the odd one giving the impression they’d rather be somewhere else.  A few others are going through the motions – lips moving, but it’s doubtful that the same is applying …

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