To take a people from being slaves to being freemen will require them to think differently. When everything has been given to you by those who lord it over you (like in government or dictatorships) and now you are free from your task master, when you are faced with hard times you will be tempted… Read more »
Posts By: Carol Dietz
The Holy Spirit Gifts
Ephesians 4:11-14 NLT Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do His work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity… Read more »
The Spin Stops Here
The Spin Stops Here Luke 7:22 “So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.” … Read more »
Wait on the Lord
Luke 10:38-41 “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be… Read more »
Political Gaslighting
The word ‘gaslighting’ has been popularized in psychology to describe a form of mental and emotional abuse in which a domineering person denies and contradicts the memories and perceptions of an intended victim begins to doubt his or her perception of reality. The word ‘gaslighting’ comes from the 1944 mystery film “Gaslight,” in which… Read more »
Serious Thought
This morning I began my reading in the Word: Exodus chapter one. The first question that came to me was: How do you take a people who are free and make them slaves? The answer that came to me is: You give them everything so that they depend upon you, then you take the males… Read more »
Daily Devotional
Yesterday I had a conversation with a young man. He asked me what church I belong to and I told him, “I do not belong to any organized church but I do attend one.” He told me he was moving close to where I lived, and he went on to say that what he really… Read more »
The New Generation
A new generation has come and they do not acknowledge Jesus, nor do they remember the mighty things that He has done for past generations. How quickly they turn away from the path of their ancestors who walked in obedience to God’s Word. This new generation contradicts the teachings of the bible, and the result… Read more »
The Jesus Method
Luke 6:12 “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.” Jesus was faced with the same problem that we are faced with. How would Jesus get His message out that He came to dies for the sins of the world? It is the… Read more »
Working Like Jesus
Luke 5:13 “Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be clean!’ And immediately the leprosy left him.” It is interesting to see when Jesus healed the man He did not pray, but just spoke the Word and this leper was made clean. Jesus said that when the… Read more »