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Spiritual Gifts,The Way a Church Grows Spiritually

This will be the first in a series centering on spiritual gifts. It will by no means go into detail in the sense that you will know exactly what to do and how to do it. The first thing we need to remember about spiritual gifts is that they are given by the Holy Spirit who gives them as He determines and empowers them. Second these gifts are given to build the Body of Christ both in character and numbers. Third, the Holy Spirit tailors the gifts to fit the individual so each individual…

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Added by HKHaugan on February 24, 2011 at 8:09am — No Comments

The Divided Self---a quote from John Stott

John Stott has been a biblical voice for decades. His biblical approach has influenced thousands. Understanding our human nature is the first step in becoming a productive people who allow the Creator to recover and restore us to His original purposes. John sees us as selves divided within.

The divided self

What we are (our self or personal identity) is partly the result of the Creation (the image of God), and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 22, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments

This Train 'isa' Bound for Glory, This Train...

Thus begins an old Gospel song.

In the late 1800’s there was yellow fever epidemic in north Florida. The railroad was a key element in dropping food and medicine to help those afflicted with the disease. The train didn’t stop. It was always moving in order to get needed supplies along its path. This was a piece of history, an actual event, something happening in this world that could be seen and experienced.

Like all events that can be recorded disciples of Jesus are called to… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 21, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

The Heart of Discipleship

This was requested as a repeat to consider what it means to make disciples as Jesus called us to do

The Heart of Discipleship

The human plight is that it is a flight into a night filled with fright that makes us up-tight with no light, shortened height, limited might, lack of sight, no clear right,

Where sin is in, and the devil’s spin and his evil grin makes everything thin and there is no place to pin who you are in his noisy din,

Here we are in the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 17, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Every Next Moment Counts

What are doing this minute? Where are you? Can you translate your activity and place spiritually? Can you interpret your circumstance from a spiritual perspective?

Thinking spiritually is the meat and potatoes of being a disciple of Jesus in a world of super market values. If you look out into space and think spiritually you will find that space is just a copy of something much larger, more real and infinitely personal. Just the pattern inherent in the physical universe is simply an… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 14, 2011 at 12:04pm — No Comments

God and Us, Each of Us Together

Just how personal is God? One has only to look at the Psalms. But one of those Psalms is especially pointed, Psalm 139 which will appear at the end of this writing that will hopefully move you to mine its gems. To give us a start consider John Stott’s overview:

“Psalm 139 is arguably the most radical statement in the Old Testament of God's personal relationship to the individual. Personal pronouns and possessives occur in the first person (I, me, my) forty-six times and in the second… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 10, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Outline for Spiritual Gifts Gathering

Outline as requested.

God’s Plan---God’s Structure---God’s Way

Father Son Holy Spirit

Architect Contractor Labor Force

Mind Heart Spirit

Just as God is the Father and God is the Son, He is also God the Spirit so they are Three in One. The Trinity is a spiritual combine so to speak, One God, Three Persons, Three in One, One in Three.

The importance of this statement comes right smack at us personally when we read Genesis 1:26, “Then God said,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 6, 2011 at 4:22pm — No Comments

The World Eats Us Alive---If We Let It

I’ve just finished reading articles on the Middle East crisis, the economic cauldron, the health care bill and the border wars plus another athlete on drugs. Of course TV exposes us to the boiling pot of Islamic pressure, political unrest in Africa, South America and Asia. On the home front a divided Congress, a polarized society and social institutions cracking at their foundation. That’s the outside world. What about our internal world? Do we have personal and interpersonal issues like family… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 3, 2011 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Real Life, I Mean REALLY Real Life

What Genesis records is so basic that often we overlook its implications. What are human beings really looking for? What is their quest for the mind, heart and spirit all about? Thinking spiritually is a beginning as opposed to how we are all caught up in politics, economics and just plain physical survival. Flow with the sequence in the following passages and consider where the secular world really is. Now shift into the promise of a totally different experience when we see things the way God… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on February 2, 2011 at 3:43pm — No Comments

On Being an Image of God

One of the things we have been emphasizing in the Spiritual Gifts gatherings is the fact that we are, along with every other human being, created in the image of God, "(Gen.1:26-27) Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created…

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Added by HKHaugan on January 31, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments

The Blessing of 13 in John 13 --- Purpose

Purpose --- “He now showed them the full extent of His love…”

Our third contextual consideration is purpose. He is going to show them how much He loves them. It must have been shocking to see the Lord remove His outer garments before them and then to gird Himself with a towel, kneel down and invite them to have their feet washed by them. Of all the disciples it is Peter who strongly objects. Why? He is responding by the world’s standards. While the other disciples calmly obey and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 26, 2011 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Thirteen and Its Place

“The evening meal was being served…”

So we come to the second contextual consideration, place. Consciousness of time brings with it a consciousness of place. Jesus had called the disciples together in the context of a meal, the Passover meal (Lk.22:8-20). This is also a connection place; the interception of the vertical in the horizontal. They are together in a time and place sharing a meal which will be the pattern for the later spiritual meal remembrance of His death and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 25, 2011 at 9:37pm — No Comments

When 13 Becomes a Blessed Number

Three articles will begin today that show the number 13 to be a blessed number. It’s because John 13 is a blessed Gospel Chapter. The way it starts and continues on with Jesus teaching His disciples what it means to be truly human. It takes place in an upper room where He takes the disicples to eat the Passover meal in preparation for the Cross. The first two verses give us a fresh look. They take us into time, place and purpose. Today we take on the idea of time. Let the verses sink in. The… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 25, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

It's Dark Out There But Light in Here

You’re on a dark road, walking on a dark night, peering into the darkness, picking your way dark step by dark step. It’s cloudy so there’s no stars or moon for slight comfort. The sounds of whatever are magnified and dark images float into your consciousness. Used to the day and its light you try and escape the imagination that brings hyper visuals of the dreaded unknown. No, you refuse to think about what might happen or what’s out there or what’s making those noises. Got to keep your head… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 24, 2011 at 9:08am — No Comments

A Quote from J.I. Packer

Submission to Christ

Our primary authority is Jesus Christ our Teacher and our Lord, and our submission to Scripture is only the logical outcome and necessary expression of our submission to him. It is to Christ that we come; but Christ sends us to a book. Not that the book to which he sends us is a dead and wooden letter, or an authoritarian ogre. He bids us listen rather to his own voice as he speaks to our particular situation by his Spirit and through his written…

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Added by HKHaugan on January 21, 2011 at 7:29am — No Comments

Jay Haug's article on the Church

Every so often it's good to hear other voices who see our faith from a perspective that challenges who and what we are as individual believers and believing communities. Read what Jay views as a church that digs into the heart and brings it home to the Lord. ><>W

The Church as a Redemptive Community

Survey after survey confirms what most of us already know. Jesus Christ remains an extremely popular and engaging figure to most of the world, but his church is too often… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 19, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Soul Language

Many times people ask about the Psalms, their purpose and place in our devotions. This quote from John Stott may help in that discernment.

"The Psalter speaks the universal language of the soul. 'The Book of Psalms', wrote Prothero, 'contains the whole music of the heart of man.' Again, echoing a phrase used by Athanasius and later by Calvin, it is 'a mirror in which each man sees the motions of his own soul'. Its theology is rich and full. It reveals a God who is both the Creator of… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 16, 2011 at 6:12am — No Comments

Spiritual Gifts Gathering

The Lord is calling the Body together. We are going to have a gathering to study spiritual gifts Saturday January 29th at All Souls from 9-12. This is an opportunity to gather in the Word to renew what Paul calls for, “…that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought (1Cor.1:10).” We are reestablishing together to respond to the Lord’s rebuilding program for this part of His Body. It is not that we don’t know what Scripture says about being the Body together. It is about presently being of… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 14, 2011 at 8:55am — No Comments

The Volcano Within, the Heart

Several years ago we went to Mt.St.Helen to see the aftermath of the massive explosion that took place there years before. You have to go there to really have a feel for that event. Mt.St.Helen’s was an explosion waiting to happen. It was building an inner pressure that would blow. No one knew just when.

Events like that have a spiritual message. Paul tells us that what you can see gives us a picture of what you can’t see. I was moved to see an invisible reality paralleled in that… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 13, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

The Call to Think Spiritually

When Jesus said ‘You must be born again’ this was no lighthearted suggestion to kind of mull over the philosophical or religious systems available in the supermarket of opinion. It was a radical leap into the invisible, the unseen, the dimension outside of one’s control. It was a leap into seeing things from a new perspective only guessed at in the past.

In our time the phrase ‘born again’ is used in many areas like when you hear a person is a ‘born again musician, athlete,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on January 10, 2011 at 9:52am — No Comments