Love is Calling

Gaslighting. I bet you've heard that term tossed around, especially in political arguments. What is it?  According to American Psychological Association.May 15, 2024 - "To gaslight someone means to manipulate another person into doubting their own perceptions, experiences or understanding of events."  That has been the devil's way to roll since he asked that lying question, "Did God really say...:" in Genesis. Today those in his wi...

The amazing grace of God at work in His children, bring peace and love and creativity to worship and praise Him and build one another up, is for us! I really believe God is calling gifted musicians and writers, at whatever level your gift, to write, and perform new psalms and hymns. Don't get tripped up by the terminology. I'm talking about songwriting and it isn't relegated to an old school vibe or any specific genre. Let's talk!

Religion and vast amounts of knowledge and the insatiable desire for more and more, actually leads one down a twisting and turning, crooked path farther and farther away from the God who loves you, and Jesus Christ, who loved us so much that He gave His life for us. He is the Light of men, and He is the Life! Turn to Him and live! Join me for today's episode of The Daily Good News for a bit of a reset and a fast paced but vital loo...

Join me as we look at Chapter Six of Paul's Letter to the Church at Galatia. The context from the opening words of the letter has been that the Law is not of faith, is a curse, and that you who choose circumcision and the law will have fallen from the grace that all mankind must have to inherit everlasting life. Grace come through faith, and since the law is not of faith, keeping the law will remove you from the grace of God, in Je...

The Law can do nothing to bear the fruit of love in our hearts and lives. It was meant as a verdict against the people who live according to the flesh. They had no love because they refused to listen and obey the God who is Love. But now, we have God who is Spirit, and who is Love, indwelling us and producing in us, His great Love, to seen in our lives in love for Him and for others - and the Law has absolutely no part to play in i...

Brothers and sisters, I was wrong! For nearly two decades I was fully enmeshed into a cult of Messianic Judaism or Hebrew Roots at Messiah Fellowship in Brighton, and now Ontario, Indiana. It, like each Torah Observant fellowship, has its own version and dogma based on the Law of Moses and many extra-biblical writings and inter-web, self professing rabbis, theologians, linguists and pseudo-scientists. The delusion is thick to those...

Abraham with Hagar produced Ishmael by an act of the flesh, in an attempt to bring God's promise into reality. It was works based and not God doing, by His power, what He had promised He would do. It was a picture of the attempt to be under the law given at Sinai for justification. Israel was under the law until flesh came, and now, Paul writes plainly, are no longer. Likewise, Gentiles, who have never been under the law, should no...

The desire to be accepted, to feel approved and to have attained something through our work and intellect is what the devil uses to draw us into legalism. Things from our childhood that have left us in a co-dependent mindset make us easy prey to those who can manipulate our emotions. I was one of those who fell prey to that cult manipulation into the Hebrew Roots movement, in Messianic Judaism. Now I've been called and given the mi...

I left off in Galatians a little over half way through it, and realize that I must finish it before continuing in Mark. The onset of religious perversion is growing and it shipwrecks faith. It's my prayer that we pay close attention to what Paul writes to the Church at Galatia, and apply it to the deluge of religion striking fear in some from the Hebrew Roots crew, but also see it for what it is in the laws that man has contrived w...

There are those who preach a health, wealth and prosperity gospel, and those who focus more on God giving us a successful life free of trouble here in this side of eternity. But there are those who die in Jesus, having never been released from the prison cells or die of a terminal illness, while having strong faith in Jesus Christ. Those are just two examples. Each of them have inherited everlasting life in Paradise with Jesus, hav...

Taking an episode to explore a little more thoroughly what Jesus meant, in Mark Seven, about the commandment of God, versus the tradition of men. His answer to those Pharisees speaks specifically about the exact commandment that they are setting aside, and from which Law it comes from. There is a difference! Join me in this episode as we look at Mark Seven, take a side trip for foundation in Exodus Nineteen and Twenty and then into...

Jesus said you shall know them by their fruit. What is that fruit? We must know! What is the opposite of the fruit of the Spirit? Mark Chapter Seven agrees with Galatians Five what is not, and it is what defiles a man, or woman! He says of the religious leaders that they are hypocrites, and the Greek work means, literally, a pretender, like an actor of a stage playing a part. Join me for today's episode of The Daily Good News and l...

When you read the Bible, with an open heart and mind, you will find that the thread through the Scriptures is red, and is a rescue story. The God who created us, loves us, and though we were far from Him, didn't care about Him, didn't seek Him - And certainly didn't ask Him to come rescue us, HE DID! He didn't just come spring us from the death penalty, with the charge of guilt still upon us. He came and paid our debt of death for ...