Men and women have erected the wrong boundaries: THEIR OWN. Whose Boundaries have you ERECTED, RESPECTED & PROTECTED? Do you know? Are you aware? Are they G-D’s? Or are they yours? If yours, you get the opposite effect of what you’re hoping for. Within the Torah, we find G-D’s Framework for properly erecting and building […]
Category: Character
‘PRAYER FOR DUMMIES’ and Kavanah
The ‘prayer struggle’ is real. I mean the HOW TO’S of prayer seem essential to the Follower of Messiah. Let’s look at a Hebrew word that will give us some insight, some helpful instruction, kind of PRAYER FOR DUMMIES. The Hebrew word kavanah is essentially MINDFULNESS in the words we pray. It is the word […]
Ephesians 5 – Reverence and Humility
Mutual Submission (humbling oneself under another) through REVERENCING THE MESSIAH is the Holy Ground where all Newness of LIFE springs forth from. Anytime one Image-bearer DEMANDS from another Image-bearer something that G-D COMMANDS us to ‘give freely’ (as HE does) – such as LOVE and RESPECT or reverence – it PRODUCES a host of WORLDLY FEARS. We […]
‘Gifted’ or GRACED to SERVE?
Believer, G-d has GIFTED you with His Spirit and GRACED you with a divine mission! When I first became a ‘believer’, I was unsure about what exactly to BELIEVE. Just as the word ‘follower’ is a bit ambiguous as well, I wasn’t following very well either! SINCERE DEVOTION to G-d’s Word AND to G-d’s People […]
The Evidences of KINGDOM FRIENDSHIP (and its impact upon The Kingdom)
What do your FRIENDS look like? More importantly, what do they DO? How do they roll? Are they holy Kingdom Friends or common worldly acquaintances? Look around at your group of talmidim (disciples) to whom you answer as you DO LIFE alongside them. You really don’t have to like one another (Tis the case at some […]
Tanning, Hair Color, Tone Thighs…OH MY!
Spring is the air. We know this because we’ve seen the bright green tulips peeking up their pointy heads to varying degrees from beneath the cold, faded wood chips. We also know this because we’ve experienced a few lovely warm, sunny days after what seems like a forever cloudy winter pelting tortured hot-weather souls-at-heart (like […]