Wise Words for Today

“There is a basic difference in strategy for God’s people of the Old Testament and His people of the New. Rather than the come and see of the Old, it is now, go to and live among. It is as critical now as it was in Old Testament times that we live holy lives. Ungodly [...]

Accepting God’s Promises: The Choice Is Yours

Mick Turner
Christ calls us and, through the presence of the Holy Spirit, empowers us to live lives of glory and significance. Many of us have spent years accepting a gospel that is only partially presented. Yes, we may have grasped the importance of the cross and what Christ accomplished in terms of atonement, justification, and [...]

Wise Words for Today

I truly believe that to live a life without the pursuit of goals is to sin against God. It is to shut off all challenges of God to extend oneself to others. It is to be a very poor steward of the precious gift of life that God has given to each one of us. [...]

Personal Authenticity and Spiritual Worldview

Mick Turner
Spiritual transformation is not so much a process of creating a “new you” – but instead, is about becoming the “real you.” As we increasingly grow “in Christ” we are led by the Holy Spirit into a deeper level of self-evaluation and, as the Spirit reveals to us both our strong and weak points, [...]

On Servanthood and Being an Epistle

Mick Turner
When we look at the life of Jesus, it is quite obvious that he did not see a dramatic division between the sacred and the secular. For Jesus, as it was for Jewish culture in general, the sacred was to be like a canopy that covered all of one’s activities, no matter how mundane. [...]

Recent Events and Lessons from the Heart

Mick Turner
I have come to believe that the Master, for reasons only he knows with certainty, supplies each of us with our own personal “thorn in the flesh.” We know from scriptural testimony that Paul certainly struggled with his “thorn,” whatever it might have been and we also know that he learned that the Lord’s [...]

An Effective Church: Consecrateted, Gathered, Synoptic

Mick Turner
Richard Foster, author of that landmark book on the classical spiritual disciplines, entitled, Celebration of Discipline, shares how he was honored with the opportunity and privilege to go about teaching and sharing his knowledge of the spiritual disciplines. In a subsequent article entitled, “A Renewed People for Our Time” Foster describes some of the [...]

If Only We Were More Obedient:

In my scripture reading this morning I came across this passage in 1 Timothy and felt not only a tinge of sadness, but also a wave of despair over our lack of love and unity in the Body of Christ.
Again, I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant agruments that only starts fights. A servant [...]

Reflections on Faith, Hope, and the Christian Journey

Mick Turner
“Faith” is one of those terms that get thrown around quite often in spiritual circles, especially Christian circles. The fact that faith gets talked about so much points to something extremely critical: whatever it is, faith is at the core of the Christian spiritual journey. We can see the centrality of faith in many [...]

Whatever Happened to Character and Service?

Mick Turner
As I look about the spiritual landscape of American culture these days, several things quickly become apparent. First, there has been an explosion of interest in all things spiritual over the past 40-50 years. Whereas earlier in the 20th Century the fascination with the spiritual life existed mostly on the periphery of our culture, [...]