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What – in the end – matters most?
When I first started preaching over 50 years ago, I was enamored with eschatology. I read some charts that showed the rapture, the seven year tribulation, the antichrist, the revelation or Second Coming, the 1000 year reign and Final Judgment. Besides having a pastor that emphasized these positions, I think I probably read a total ...
Some of My Greatest Fears
The older I get, the faster time flies; the older I get, the more I find myself crying to God, ‘Let me end well’. I have been stunned to discover how many esteemed leaders in church history did not end well. Even some of my Puritan heroes went to their graves with a lack of ...
The Christian and the Pharisee
It was an honor that the book by Rabbi David Rosen and me (with Forewords by Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and Rene-Samuel Sirat, former Chief Rabbi of France) would be launched at Westminster Abbey on March 23rd 2006. The meeting ‘by invitation only’ began shortly after 12.30 p.m. David’s wife Sharon and ...
Accountability and Mercy
Like many readers of this magazine I have admired Ted Haggard very much. I have had fellowship with him, prayed with him and have been thrilled to see him exalted to such places of influence. He kindly endorsed my book Total Forgiveness (Charisma House). My heart goes out to him and his family. The pain ...
“God told me” -Really?
One of the hardest habits for some of us to break is saying, ‘The Lord told me this’ – or ‘Here is what the Lord showed me’. If you ask, Is this truly a bad habit?, I answer: yes. It is one of the worst claims being perpetrated in churches today and is almost certainly ...
Could it really be judgement
I have been asking the question: whatever is going on lately in some Charismatic circles – the increase of financial scandals, sex scandals, divorces, even Senate investigations of ministries? Could it be God’s judgment? Is there more coming down the road that will make the angels blush? Are people who get found out to continue ...
Lakeland
I can think of nothing worse than for God to be powerfully at work and I miss it – all because I was biased and devoid of discernment. All my life I have waited for an authentic work of God that was not unlike the Great Awakening in Jonathan Edwards’ day. In more recent years ...
Whatever Happened to Discernment?
I believe in all the gifts of the Spirit, and yet I fear there is a scarcity of that underestimated gift called discerning of spirits (1 Cor.12:10). Many of us truly want the supernatural; but there seems to be little evidence of a seeking after the gift of discernment. The task of every generation is ...
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