It’s Time To Become Who We Really Are

Mick Turner
In the Christian’s journey of faith it is foundational to understand the following biblical principles before we travel very far down the road of spiritual formation:
 God has provided everything we need in order to develop and evolve spiritually. It seems he has done this in ways that are highly mysterious but also highly effective. [...]

Wise Words for Today

You must get in your mind that the God who spoke the universe into existence also has spoken over you. The only reason His Word cannot manifest in your life, as He has spoken it, is that you have not fully accepted the reality of its power and who you are….You must remember at all [...]

Wise Words For Today

Maybe there’s a dream buried deep inside your soul, and God is waiting to reconstruct it, to put all the bones back together. He is waiting to put muscle and sinew on it and wrap skin around it…God is waiting for you to recognize that you cannot control the four winds, but he can. If [...]

The “Little Gods” Controversy: A Tempest in a Teapot

Mick Turner
Many essayists believe that if you are going to say something that is likely to create controversy, cause the reader to foam at the mouth, or throw your precious writing up against the nearest wall while, at the same time, calling you everything from an apostate to the brother of Beelzebub, it is best [...]

The Law of Attraction: Reflections on Application and Purpose

Mick Turner
The so-called “Law of Attraction” has received quite a bit of attention over the past few years, especially since the publication of Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. Quite frankly, I was somewhat amazed at this sudden cultural infatuation with the Law of Attraction, primarily because it has been around in one form or another for [...]

Justification and Sanctification: Keeping it Simple (Well, Kind of…)

Mick Turner
Only a modicum of spiritual discernment is needed to affirm the fact that many Christians are living far beneath the standards of excellence called for by Christ in his teachings and exemplified by the manner in which he lived. This unfortunate reality points to yet another tragic fact: many Christians are not appropriating their [...]

Positive Prayer and the Release of Negative Imprints

Mick Turner
When a person first discovers the principles and the power of the various spiritual laws the Creator has put at our disposal, he or she is often filled with hope, enthusiasm, and positive motivation. This is both natural and as it should be, because these principles are blessings that God has given us and [...]

Wise Words for Today

It isn’t enough only to know that God has promised something to us; we must grasp what principles in His Word govern that provision. He’s established standards, a code – “rules” if you will – and the entire Bible is based on them. Sowing and reaping. Dying and living. Becoming the least to be the [...]

Psuedo-Repentance: The Plague of Superficiality

Mick Turner
Over the past few days the Spirit has graciously led me to see that it all begins with “repentance.” The theme starts early in scripture, is emphasized in Psalms and the Prophets, and the New Testament is loaded with that word – repentance.
 John the Baptist screamed it and Jesus’ first mission words recorded included [...]

Wise Words for Today

 
When we discover that our hearts are broken and contrite, we come to the Lord with an earnest desire to repent of our sinfulness. It’s out of this repentant heart that we find redemption in Christ. We are redeemed because of his sacrificial love on our behalf expressed in his death on the cross and [...]