Surely we CAN go up and take the land. The Lord has given it to us.

Over the years, in 'coming along side' fellow believers, for a time, to encourage them in the faith, I've run into those who very much appear to be 'stuck in time'.   They've invariably experienced childhood traumas that have seemingly left them still living from that period in their life, going around that well-trod mountain, again and again.  They haven't been able to 'move on'.  They remain 'stuck in time'.…

Mathew 6:22-23 

"The lamp of the body is the eye.  If therefore your eye is good your whole body will be full of light." 

"But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.  If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that…

In Mathew 5:29-30, Jesus, in discussing a particular sin (in this case sexual lust), goes on to give the remedy in verses 29 and 30.

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First, let me say that this is a subject that I am passionate about because it is foundational to our faith.

If we, with silent voices allow, passively put up with, or cowardly tolerate teaching/instruction coming into the Church that weakens, distorts, or dismisses the absolute authority, strength, and power of the Old Testament, we not only have presumptiously dismissed the very breath of God upon, in, and through it, but have automatically opened the…