“You Can Do This”

        Encouragement!  That's right, encouragement.  In my later years I've discovered that brothers and sisters in the Faith need to be encouraged.  Most of our time is spent in a world outside the local Body of Christ.  It's a world full of spiritual hostility.  You know what I mean, the culturally conditioned 'me first' atmosphere that spends more time…

Treasure Seeking

        Moosehead Lake, a 40-mile-long natural mountain lake 1300 ft. above sea level, in Maine, is one of the really beautiful lakes in that multi-lake state.  It has island after island you can canoe to and camp on.  It holds the unique treasure fishermen know as freshwater salmon.  The fishing is really wonderful even though it takes some very challenging outdoor smarts to get the fish.  Most of its shoreline is real wilderness.  Deer, moose and occasional…

Jesus, the Gift Giver

       We’ve talked about Jesus being a one-attitude Person, the perfect Spirit-filled Person.  Now we want to talk about Him as the Gift Giver.  He was and is 100% Spiritude motivated and gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit when we receive Him in our hearts. 

       We want to see Jesus as the Person who touches us personally (grace) with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  I would venture to say that spiritual gifts are rarely taught as basic for the…

Jesus, the Gift Giver

       We’ve talked about Jesus being a one-attitude Person, the perfect Spirit-filled Person.  Now we want to talk about Him as the Gift Giver.  He was and is 100% Spiritude motivated and gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit when we receive Him in our hearts. 

       We want to see Jesus as the Person who touches us personally (grace) with the gifts…