Category Archives: Curriculum and Instruction

Have you ever noticed that some people just seem to have a knack with learning different languages? How is this affinity for learning human language similar and different to gifts related to “tongues” in the the New Testament? Today we will examine the category of the gift of tongues, which exists establish and communicate theContinue reading “Diverse Tongues and the Apostolic: Types of Tongues (Part One)”

How is faith in Christ different than aiming to be a morally “good person?” Last night, I was prompted by one of my dreams to wrestle with the difference between faith and general good ethics. Desiring More In my dream, I was walking down a sidewalk towards a crowd. A short, greyish black haired woman,Continue reading “The Genuine Article: Faith”

When a person starts long for God at the soul level, it comes from a place deeper than our reason and temporary emotions. It is like being pulled by an internal cord into a direction you may not consciously understand. Often, people experience this sensation over time, and describe it with sensing language (discerning, noticing, thirsting, hungering, itching, burning, aching, yearning, pining). When it comes to the soul (and the spirit), it isn’t a factual knowing or a rational reasoning, but an intuitive perceiving. Often, this means waking up a level of desire for righteousness and longing for the beauty of God that people didn’t know they had.

The active way Jesus chose to die has implications for how we walk out seasons of surrender and death to our own agendas. All necessary deaths lead to the redemption of God.