Spiritual Growth and Formation – At Christ’s Table

Wrestling with Your Brother or with God ? (Article)

From the moment of his birth throughout most of his life, Jacob “wrestled” with people – particularly his brother. He wrestled in order to position himself – that is, in order to get things the way he wanted them. It was his nature to wrestle with everyone he encountered before he finally wrestled with God. But after having his ultimate wrestling match with God – that is, after “wrestling for the blessing”, both his name and his nature were changed.

Not Your “Garden Variety” Identity (Article)

This article, which deals with the subject of “personal identity”, is an excerpt from the book “Wrestling for the Blessing”, which endeavors to show that Scripture reveals God’s desire to offer each individual in Christ a unique expression of their personal identity. This was clearly initiated in the Garden, lost through the Fall, restored collectively to the people of God in the Old Covenant, but restored on an individual basis for each person in Christ. Further, the personal application of

Your PERSONAL Identity in Christ (Article)

Longing to be “Present with the Lord” (Article)

This article, along with “Worship, Prayer & Music”, “Defining ‘The Presence of the Lord’”, “The Shekinah”, “The Presence of God In Light of the New Covenant”, and“Experiencing the Manifested Presence of God”, are all excerpts from the book “The Manifested Presence of the Lord”. Hopefully, those previous articles help explain the phrase “times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19) and convince us of our need for such. I believe the reasons why we have this need

Experiencing the Manifested Presence of God (Article)

This brief article discusses the following aspects of Experiencing the Manifested Presence of God: Being “In the Spirit” Spiritual Perception “Under the Influence” of the Spirit A Foretaste of Heaven

Yet Once More (Article)

The writer to the Hebrews tells us God is shaking the heavens and the earth – all created things. There is a revelation of “the shaking”, there’s a realization of “the shaking”, and then there is the fruitfulness of “the shaking”.

From Children to a Mature Man (Article)

This is a brief essay on a passage in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. My “bottom line” flies in the face of a current tendency in much of the professing Church in western nations, including most of the so called “Ekklesia” movements. That tendency is to shun the reality and necessity of authentic spiritual leadership.[1] To be clear, by “authentic spiritual leadership” ministries I am NOT referring to those who have well-known, large, and popular, “successful” ministries. Nor am I

Captivating Phrase, A (Article)

“The weakness of God” (1 Corinthians 1:25) – this is, indeed, a captivating phrase penned by Paul the apostle in his letter to the Church. This article is about weakness, meekness, the powers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12), “a people being formed by the Lord” (Isaiah 43:21), and the commission of the Church. (Ephesians 3:10)

The WHAT & WHY of The Way of The Cross (Article)

WHAT Do We Mean By “The Cross”? The first mention of “the cross” in the Bible is spoken by Jesus Himself: “And He said to all, If any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself [disown himself, forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, refuse and give up himself] and take up his cross daily and follow Me cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying

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