Posts By: Carol Dietz

Kingdom Thinking – Part 10

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinking will tend to exorcize the demonic out of social systems that are operating in one’s society and culture. Not only do we want to deal with individual sin, but also the power structure that is behind… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 9

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Someone said: “All humankind still prefers peace to war, justice to oppression, harmony to discord, order to chaos. Social change is possible and we see it throughout the world. How can we do equal justice to the truths… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 8

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinkers will speak out that Christ is head over every culture as well as King over every secular king. It engages the culture around us.   In some ways the future of society depends upon those with… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 7

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinking will turn the world upside down. We read in Acts 17:7 “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here.” It was said that they turned the world upside down, but… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 6

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinking will compel us to embrace our secular communities and in so doing will bring the Kingdom of God to bear in those communities.   Two examples of this: A brother that I know is a contractor-building… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 5

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   In one sense Kingdom thinking is bringing in or working towards a ‘new Christendom.’ What I mean by this is that we desire to interweave Biblical precepts into our culture, society and nation. Not only do we want… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 4

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Kingdom thinking embraces a Biblical worldview that takes in all of life. There is no Agnostic Greek view of Scripture that regards only spiritual things as important. Scripture clearly brings out that the earth is the Lord’s and not… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 3

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinking also understands Romans 13 that civic leaders are also called ‘ministers’ and if God is calling them ministers then kingdom thinking understands that they can partner with political and community leaders to reach a common cause… Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 2

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   Kingdom thinking realizes that the offices mentioned in Ephesians 4:11-12 have been given by the Lord to equip the saints for the work of the ministry and that this ministry involves the community in which they live.  … Read more »

Kingdom Thinking – Part 1

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”   In my travels, reading, praying I have noticed that there is a definite shift taking place in the Evangelical church today. We do not hear so much about ‘church talk,’ but more ‘kingdom talk.’ In other words, we… Read more »