Stop Asking Facebook Where to Go to Church — Ask Jesus Instead

Instead of asking Facebook which church we should attend, maybe we should spend some time with Jesus and ask Him where He wants us to go — or IF He wants us to attend a church at all. Maybe He has other plans than crowdsourcing recommendations. Over the past year, I’ve read dozens of posts […]

Why My Evolving Beliefs Don’t Make Me a False Teacher

Why Every Christian Should Stop Calling People “False Teachers” (And Start Asking Better Questions) If everyone who doesn’t agree with your opinion is automatically a false teacher, then wouldn’t that make you a false teacher to someone else, too? I hate that religion and church culture have conditioned people to believe that their particular brand, […]

Understanding Righteousness of Christ: A Grace-Filled Journey Out of Legalism

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the righteousness of Christ, the gift of being given His righteousness, and what Scripture means when it says our own righteousness is like filthy rags while His is complete. These reflections have been shaping how I understand grace, identity in Christ, and what it truly means to live […]

Is It Revival or Reformation?

For years, I have prayed for, studied, and preached about revival. When I became a pastor in the institutional church system, my sole desire was to bring revival to the church and transformation to the city where the church was located. Sadly, after 17 years, that was not the result. After many years, God began […]

the Grace and Goodness of Abba

I have come to believe that it is impossible to comprehend the depth of Abba’s grace and His goodness when chained to the rules of a church and religion. Church is tied to rules and opinions. Those opinions are regularly perpetuated as gospel, as pure and holy as Jesus himself. Don’t believe it? Try to […]

What Should a Church Gathering Look Like?

What should a church gathering look like? Should it look like a classroom? Should it be a lecture hall? What about a huge concert stage? Do the scriptures give us any directions as to how to gather? What then is the right course, believers? When you meet together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a […]

Dechurching is detoxing

I woke up early this morning with the phrase, “Dechurching is Detoxiing,” running through my mind. This is one of the ways Holy Spirit I’ve learned to hear from the Holy Spirit. Detoxing on a physical level is simply removing the impurities that get into our physical bodies through the food we ingest, the water […]

Is the church under a spirit of Witchcraft?

What a question. Is Churchianity, the church system, under a spirit of Witchcraft? I ask the hard questions. For some reason, I ask questions, often about things that no one else seems to question, things that most people take for granted. Because of those questions, which revolve around the church system, I have been called […]

God Is NOT In Control

I love the quaint little sayings that Christians have developed. Many of them are based on half-truths at worst and confusion at best. We have statements from as absurd as the “Man Upstairs” or “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” We have others that are true but have been so overused that they are almost comical, […]