What seems to be the problem? Maybe you have had a medical professional ask you that question or it is possible that you have found yourself in front of your Pastor or spiritual advisor that asked you something similar. When it comes to counseling, for the most part when an assessment process is engaged, a mental health professional, counselor or clergy member will utilize a variety of methods to arrive at a diagnosis. They will employ an inventory of questions, rely on visual observations and collected personal data in addition to drawing from their own experience and training. The bottom line is that the issue must be accurately diagnosed in order to address and solve the problem.
Read MoreWe are undoubtedly living in an unprecedented period. Pornographic pictures and explicit erotic material are more accessible than at any other time in history. Case in point, consider the illicit images that are insidiously in our faces in shopping malls at stores such as Victoria’s Secret, advertisements on the road, internet, television and movies, fliers and magazines, iPhones, iPads and electronic devices. I mean these salacious sources are an enormously large hole of lawlessness and a duplicitous deep ditch!
Read MoreThe word of God is very direct and deliberate in declaring that Jesus Christ is the only One that can deliver us from the slavery, seduction, sickness, strength and sentence of sin which is separation from God.
Read MoreThis week’s subject calls for clarity in addition to cementing us in the truth with respect with what the Bible says about deliverance. As always, the Bible is our book of authority. It advances wisdom for salvation as well as how to accurately address spiritual and life issues that challenge us in a complex world that is consistently hostile, irreverent and apathetic to the Scriptures.
Read MoreWhen the Apostle Paul was making his case for Christ before King Agrippa, he testified that prior to his conversion to Christ he was clothed in his Jewish credentials. He was devoted to his deep-seated commitment to the religion of the Jews.
Read MoreWhat is a Christian? Have you ever asked yourself this question? There was a time in history that “Christian” was a nomenclature that nobody wanted as it invited the vitriol of the world. Today we live and contend with a contemptible cloak of counterfeit Christianity.
Read MoreWhen you consider the word “bonus” what comes to your mind? In a positive context, perhaps your smile is on display due to the feeling of excitement in anticipation of an unexpected reward. Perhaps you have thoughts of gratitude as you consider receiving some extra cash, a gift or being paid over and above what is due.
Read MoreI submit to you that the first eighteen years of my existence here on earth I majored in ministering to myself. I will not subject you to the details or sensationalize a sinful and willful walk with a lost world. But God who is rich in mercy found me in my morbid, lost condition. With His matchless and marvelous grace saved a wretched wanderer waist-deep in the world! For the last thirty-six years and counting, Lord willing, I am ministering for and to the Master.
Read MoreThis week, we will continue our discussion on examining the kind of motivation that magnifies the Master (the Lord Jesus Christ). In Paul’s letter to the Corinthian believers, he shared that it was the love of Christ that compelled or motivated him for life and ministry. What I noticed from our text is the enormous statement of the truth (the love of Christ), not my love for Christ. This is significant because our love for Christ often navigates in a sea of fluctuations influenced by our flesh. Often our love for Him is caught in a cloud of carnal conditions. Without the dominate influence of the Holy Spirit we cannot accurate display the devotion that our Lord deserves.
Read MoreHave you ever heard someone say, “I have to get motivated?” What does it mean to be motivated and why is it a good thing? When we take the role of motivator in someone’s life we are basically providing a cause or reason to take action.