This week I Skyped it up with Dave Edwards for the latest episode of Fire On Your Head. We began our conversation with absolutely nothing planned, and it turned out to be a longer …
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You Say Hyper-Grace Like It’s A Bad Thing
Last night I was listening to an episode of the Fire On Your Head podcast I recorded nearly two years ago with Gregg Montella. I had just created a stand-alone app for the podcast and downloaded …
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How much of our witness for Christ is beyond our control?
I had an experience a few weeks ago that has had me thinking about this very question. It was not the first time in my life someone told me I was a hypocrite of a Christian, and I bet it …
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Embarrass Sin Before It Embarrasses You
I've had my stomach in knots since earlier this week. I found out, through a Facebook post that a friend of mine from Bible college was arrested for stuff I couldn't imagine he'd ever do. Or …
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Grace & Love vs. Repentance & Holiness: Is There No Middle Ground?
It truly amazes me how many Christians can't or don't grasp that the grace & love of God message and the repentance/holiness message are not contradictory. They are in fact, opposite sides of …
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Do You Exaggerate Your Personal Testimony?
I was reading a really good biography on my Kindle these last few days, and quickly I became nostalgic of my own adolescence as the author was sharing their sordid past. I personally have …
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Open Wounds Affect Your Destiny
Have you ever known someone or dealt with someone who was really abrasive? Someone who, for whatever reason, seems to always be disagreeable or questions your motives, even if they're pure? Or …
How Weird Are You?
If I told you your typical understanding of holiness was wrong, would you keep reading this blog post to see what I'm talking about? The title of this post may have already thrown you off, but …
Do You Put The Cart Before The Horse? | Podcast with David Edwards
Join us as Steve Bremner and Dave Edwards chat it up. We begin sharing a bit of a personal testimony from Steve, who is a missionary to Peru, concerning God's faithfulness and provision while …
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Cussing Christians — When Is an F Bomb Ever “Necessary”?
Here we go again! More cussing Christians. In case you haven't noticed -- because maybe because you're not a frequent visitor to my blog -- I'm a huge P.O.D. fan. I've shared their two recent …
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Holiness, Worship Leaders and F-Bombs
If you're wondering what the title is all about, let me tell you about my other site Fire Press. Yesterday I published a guest post by fellow revival grad and blogger, Joshua Burton. We only know …
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Holiness and *&!#ing Worship Leaders
Recently one of my ex-professors posted a blog about a church worship leader who at some casual hangout event dropped the f-bomb. If this wasn’t shocking enough, there was alcohol involved in the …
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Are You Religious?
When most Christians hear the phrase “religious” they immediately think of it in a negative way. One of the local churches around my town actually advertises itself as “nonreligious.” I myself …
Keeping Ourselves From Idols | Podcast with David Edwards
This week Dave Edwards and I sit down to talk about something burning in our hearts, but wind up having a spontaneous discussion on idolatry, and what that looks like in our society culture. Do …
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Jesus’s Eyes of Fire
"His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire." (Revelation 1:14, ESV) “I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and …
It’s All Grace?
Many of us read how God dealt with His people in the Old Testament, and see a God who wiped entire nations off the face of the earth including the women and children. We read of people being …
Empty Vessels Fit For Filling
And she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. Then go in and shut …
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
The ministry of the Holy Spirit brings us out of a walk in the flesh into a walk in the Spirit (see Romans 8). Our “religion” is different than any other. Not only has our God recreated us and …
