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This is one of the best, most balanced writings we've come across; breaking down the doctrine of "Covering and Leadership". Well worth the read!!
The following article is from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola, the part of the book entitled “Who is Your Covering?” (copyright 2008, David C. Cook). The endnotes aren’t included in the article, but they appear in the book. From the ages of sixteen to twenty-three, I traversed the landscape of evangelical Christianity. I became part of the following denominations: Southern Baptist, Independent Baptist (a completely different species from the Southern Baptists), Mennonite, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Church of Christ (non-instrumental), Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Assemblies of God, Church of God, and countless stripes...
I was stunned! Flabbergasted! It exactly described where I stood on the mountain! It was the verse about the ancient paths I received coming down the mountain that I didn’t look up!
Hold on to your seat folks, this is a long one put the story is totally worth it! See if you relate to what this guy went through...
Personal Experience: Developing a new way of looking at life is a difficult process. Most of these lessons have been learned form hard-earned experience. Learning to view the world differently not because I wanted to, but to survive and understand, I had to. Much that happened during this time period was the result of God so re-ordering my world He had to speak in so many different kinds of ways just to get my attention. You see I had a problem, which many of us have of course, but mine was called performance orientation. What that does to a person is make them work so hard they just burn out. And burn out I did. I had been pastoring a youth church... When the media flash headlines similar to the title of this blog, it often gives the impression that the research it is citing is something new and extraordinary. The truth, however, is...
Have you ever thought about what it means, really means, to be made in God's image as it says in Genesis 1:26?
This is something I have spent much time meditating on over the years, especially when I was still in clinical practice. I would have patients coming to me with lots of baggage, which included all kinds of evaluations and assessments of all their learning problems and emotional issues. Although I have a healthy respect for the diagnostic tools they had gone through and that I had been trained to administer, I felt we had to dig below the surface of the issues to separate out the real person from the person they had become... Speaking in Tongues Written by Dr. Caroline LeafCAN THE MIND CHANGE THE BRAIN? and GLOSSOLALIA 'SPEAKING IN TONGUES' AND HEALTH!
WATCH this video clip (36 mins) as Dr Leaf address the question..Can the Mind change the brain? and the impact on the brain when Speaking in Tongues! 75% to 95% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about affects us physically and emotionally. It's an epidemic of toxic emotions...
Romans 8 (The Mirror Word) Enjoy the whole chapter and be refreshed in who you are and what Christ has done!!
Romans 8:1 Now the decisive conclusion is this: in Christ, every bit of condemning evidence against us is cancelled... |
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