I don’t get it sometimes. You’re locked up in a prison. You’re the target of unrelenting personal attack. For as many people love what you do there are others equally determined to see you suffer in the worst way possible before you leave this earth. Some of those you used to rely on have left […]
Read More Might As Well Enjoy YourselfJoy as an expression of the Spirit living in is a fascinating truth to deal with. There’s happiness and then there’s joy. There is something about this quality that goes a lot further than a momentary response to something positively stimulating. There is something about this quality that is rich and deep and exists whatever […]
Read More Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (The Fruit Series 21)It’s all the more fascinating reading the things Jesus says to the churches in the early part of Revelation. In as much as those messages were about conditions those churches experienced it still comes across as though Jesus is talking about the conditions that church can be in today. Reading the situation for Ephesus is […]
Read More Gotta Get Back To LoveIn the beginning when God created man it was His plan that man would be made in His image and in His likeness. Man was to reflect God on the earth. Completing the creation of man process, God breathed into the nostrils of man who then became a living being. Later when Jesus returned from […]
Read More Fruit of the Spirit: Love (The Fruit Series 20)I watched something recently that made me sad. I saw things that were meant to be so beautiful, corrupted by the pursuit of money and power. Relationships so sacred were sullied by deception. Interactions designed to help each other were full of mistrust and disrespect. Enforcing this was a system that was more concerned with […]
Read More Let It Grow NaturallyAnd the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NIV) The source of life and fruitfulness is God. Choosing […]
Read More Bad Fruit and the Self Life (The Fruit Series 12)OK from the get-go all Dryden Family members at ease. I ain’t defecting. (Yet) I was watching Captain America: Civil War for the second time, recently, and I intend to watch it a third time as soon as I can. I love it for a lot of reasons, but this is not a movie review […]
Read More Who Are My Family?So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah. Now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. (1 […]
Read More Sam’s 1st Epic 16 – Man with the SpiritNow Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” (Luke 11:1) Communication is the key. Effective exchange of information from one party to the other and vice-versa. It’s a basic fundamental feature of life. When […]
Read More A Look at Luke 11 – Have A Talk With Our FatherAnd when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was […]
Read More A Look at Luke 4 – Testing and Purpose
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