I am so thankful I have discovered your site and books.
Your blog on the cleansing of the Temple was EPIC in my life!
Were you watching my life when you wrote the New Testament Prophet?
I can’t express to you how much you have helped free me.
The Church Refugee sanity video you posted last week gave us some sanity. Thank you so so much.
I have been working through your book on worship. It is truth that I have been coming into in my own understanding over the past few years. Your book brings it altogether in depths I had not yet seen.
I can’t express to you how much you have helped free me. Thank you
How I wish I would’ve come across a read like this/been exhorted as much when I was a few years more youthful…..my soul may have been spared a great deal of malarkey.
My wife has been freed. She now understands her emotional upheavals and helped her to see herself as ‘normal.’
I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels for years and now like a babe relearning everything fresh n new.
The CRSG series helped me fit the pieces of my own experience in order and answered so many questions as to why so few people make the move to freedom in Christ.
How I wish I would’ve come across a read like this/been exhorted as much when I was a few years younger. My soul may have been spared a great deal of malarkey.
Your articles are an answer to prayer.
I feel so blessed to have found you. I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels for years and now like a babe relearning everything fresh and new.
You are the most practical spiritual person I have known.
You are a breath of fresh air!
Your teaching on praise and worship has given articulation to what I have been thinking for ten years!
How New is the New Covenant’? I just finished reading it last night. It was so challenging, thought provoking and inspiring.
You are a breath of fresh air
I have to thank you for your blog and books. Your website has helped me greatly over the past 2 years. I feel like the past few years I am having to deprogram myself and relearn a lot
Your book, The Silent Killers of Faith, rescued my life seven years ago.
The New Testament Prophet – For the first time in my life, I don’t feel like I am crazy.
The New Testament Prophet – This material has transformed my marriage.
The New Testament Prophet – I feel like I have been put in touch with my Creator for the first time.
You have put on paper what I have always thought in my heart. Thank you.
The New Testament Prophet – I was moved to tears by the heartbeat of God for his people that resounds on page after page.
The New Testament Prophet – My paradigm of what the prophetic is has been turned upside down and reoriented.
Understanding the Prophetic Mind, Temperament, and Calling is a life changing seminar!
Wow, I have been set free!
I enjoy the way you put Truth into words! Your postings enrich life.
Your book on healing has touched me in such a deep way.
Your book on authority should be mandatory for every believer!
I wish your book on authority was in the hands of every believer!
Your book on legalism is such a liberating read!
Thank-you for putting into words what the Spirit has been whispering in my heart.
You say things I have always felt, but never had the courage to speak them out.
I can’t tell you how much your posts have blessed me and challenged me.
I think each church leader needs to read these books, I may buy one for our leaders
I wish I would have seen all of that when I was younger. It would have saved me years of heartache.
I cannot thank you enough for your ministry through these books they are so enlightening.
I read Silent Killers Of Faith and it has changed my pastoral life from legalism to New Covenant preaching.
I can’t seem to put your books down.
I gotta tell you that you are the most straight shooting guy I have ever met.
This little book about Matthew 18 is a great little treasure. I think that that 5 dollar book could save people a ton of hurt
Silent Killers of Faith — Oh my! What an eye opener to me and family!
Your book on praise and worship woke me up to the new covenant reality.
You have an amazing ability to put into words the very things people agonize over.
I can’t tell you how much your blog posts have meant to me.
Your materials are a healing balm in the Church.
I have never read such a well balanced treatment on the subject of the ”apostolic” and authority.
Your book on apostolic ministry has been a tremendous help.
Thank you for all the people you are helping and all the help you have been to us.
I’m blown away by your book.
Your book on praise and worship was one of the most influential books of my life.
Your book on the misuse of apostolic authority-what an eye opener!
I think your seminar on understanding the prophetic persona should be mandatory for every believer!
RUN – DON’T WALK, to the first opportunity you have to attend the Understanding the Prophetic Mind seminar.
For the first time in my life I don’t feel like there is something wrong with me. Your seminar on understanding the prophetic mind has changed my life.
Your prophetic seminar has helped me understand myself and others like I never have before.
Thanks to your prophetic mind seminar, I now understand why people respond to me the way they do.
Anyone who thinks he or she might be prophetic, or works or lives with someone who is, should attend this seminar.
As a result of being at your seminar on the prophetic mind, I feel like I have been put in touch with my creator for the first time.
Thanks to your prophetic seminar I am now free to be an authentic blessing to others, instead of always feeling like there is something wrong with me, because I can never seem to ”fit in.”
The residents in our recovery facility love your articles, so thank you – your writings become part of their discipleship and recovery
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love” (John 15:10 NKJV).
Powerful stuff, my brother! I’m getting the book! Peace!
The Old Covenant was still in force when Jesus shared this with His disciples. They were not yet “equipped” to grasp the “language” of the new creation. They would find the internal capacity to fulfill the law after Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection and ascension, and after He poured out His Spirit at Pentecost. No matter how governed the Adamic nature is, even though one might choose good fruit over evil fruit, death is in the seed. Wrong tree; wrong root.
exactly ! most christians are unaware that they are still feeding from the old root , plus mans christianity is trying to be an end in itself , or , the branch is trying to abide in itself , and its not working , theres no fruit , we need to be rooted and grounded in agape , not christianity .
Good insight! Question for you. What bible version do you deem most accuate? Which study helps besides Strongs do you use most frequently?
Hi Susan, there is a difference between what I might use devotionally (I don’t think it matters too much), and what I might use for study and teach from. All translations have biases as no one, other than God is 100% objective, and to claim we are 100% objective in our efforts, is fundamentally, a preposterous/blasphemous idea. I’m not 100% objective, and no one else is either. I do my own study from original languages, compare to many translations, recognize biases when they are there, try to recognize my own, mix study with meditation and prayer, and preach/teach my convictions. I use Strong’s very sparingly. It is over 100 years old and for beginning or entry level study, or on “non controversial words and issues”, it is an “ok” place to start, but I never base ANYTHING solely on a Strong’s definition. There are many, many discoveries and developments in understanding that have occurred in the last 100 years that make Strong’s dated, and in some places, just flat-out wrong.
Very good! Moreover, the word for “if” in Greek is “εἰ” a more definite word, unlike “ἐάν”, always precedes fact. It’s also interesting to note that Christ doesn’t leave us to guess what this command is. He tells us it is to love one another (verse 12, 17). So basically, Jesus’ involvement in the dynamic sphere of the love of the Father, caused Him to respond in “obedience” by loving us, and thereby including us in it, our response in turn will be to draw others into this sphere of love. Amazing, isn’t it?
S
Precisely. Well said, and the two different words for “if” in the Greek often have profound implications that are lost in English because of the limitations of English.
Great post Steve – the religious have always wanted to focus on works and man’s cooperation / participation in the things of the Lord.
Jay
Great post – yes, it is God’s love for us and Christ in us that allows us to do anything in service and ministry. What arrogance to think that any of us can stand in our efforts for God, let alone do things with complete obedience. Our works can not and do not save us (Eph 2:8,9) neither are we able to do anything on our own (…for apart from me you can do NOTHING, John 15:5)
I love what John communicates in his letters, especially I John, where he is so clear in describing how it is the love of God and the working of the Holy Spirit in us that makes the difference. Him in us, moving through us is what it is about.
Paul also was clear on this – Christ in us (Col 1:27) and how we have treasure in earthen vessels which clearly demonstrates the power is from God and not from us (2 Cor 4:7)
Awesome! What a great blessing!!Thanks Steve!
Great stuff including the comments- Me personally I was turned of by the sales pitch for the book at the end. I do marketing and it is the world system to give you a taste then require you to pay for more. I understand I do not know the authors heart I am just pointing to an appearance of retailing Jesus