The Unlikely Missionary

When there is no grace the consequences of your action can be utter destruction . We live in the time of grace. But... Shame is a powerful thing. And pride is what keeps you shackled by your shame. Hiding it behind closed doors even from God. It’s ironic really that we try to hide our shame from a all seeing, all knowing God. How much do we miss out on because of our pride? How much do we suffer alone? It brings me to the woman at the well. When Jesus told her all she had done she could have, in her pride, denied it. But she didn’t, she owned it and instead of condemnation she received living water, eternal life. How many of us have been told the truth about ourselves and vehemently denied it? How much have we missed out on because of it? How many opportunities have passed us by because our pride has caused us to hide our shame? God can’t fix, God can’t use, God can’t turn around that which you don’t give to him. When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well it was because he k...

Many people have many different ideas of Jesus but do you believe that he is the great I AM? The Messiah, the Savior? The ultimate sacrifice? He is all those things. What matter is, Do you believe that?  Confess. Believe. Be Saved. Be blessed! The Unlikely Missionary DHW Was he a poet turned Radical politician Trying to start a revolution A preacher on a mission Talkin bout fishing In a new kind of kingdom Or a small town wannabe tired Of carpentry Carving out a little fame John or Elijah, teacher, Messiah Or just someone trying to Make a name Could the one we know as Mary's son Be the long awaited Holy One So you're a cynic Oh, well I get it It's hard to trust what you Can't see You've been broken How can you hope in Or believe in a mystery Oh, you oughta know, gotta Know where you stand Who do you say that I am Who do you say that I am Two thousand years counting, The question's still mounting The answer's still A mus...

Hebrews 9 BC - Before Grace 1-5 That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship. A large outer tent was set up. The lampstand, the table, and “the bread of presence” were placed in it. This was called “the Holy Place.” Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called “the Holy of Holies.” In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, the covenant tablets, and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. But we don’t have time to comment on these now. 6-10 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people’s accumulated sins. This was the Holy Spirit’s way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can’t just walk ...

Theology is the study of the nature of God and religious belief (Dictionary.com). Theology is nice but theology does not equal the Gospel. In the Christian faith people can interpret what the Bible says in different ways because everyone brings their different perspective and worldview to anything they read. However, there are foundational truths that exist in the Word of God REGARDLESS of ones theology. What are the facts: In the Bible it says... -We were created ( Genesis 1:26-27 ) -We had a personal relationship with God (He walked with Adam and Eve in the garden Genesis 3:8 ) -We sinned (Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree Genesis 3 ) and it destroyed that relationship causing sin to enter the world and us to all be born into sin -Over the years people worked to get the relationship back but they were only temporary fixes (atonement by animal sacrifice; Hebrews 9:1-10 ) -Jesus was born ( Matthew 1:18-25 ;  Luke 2:1-20 ) -Jesus died to be the permanent solutio...

I am utterly appalled at the things Christians are justifying these days. When you think about it we, as people of God should be on the side of giving those who need asylum help and safety, of showing compassion to those who need it. The fact that we aren't shows how far from God the American Church really is. The Fact is American Christians Are Being Tested and Failing Miserably. We condone people having their children ripped away from them while on Sunday praising the Savior who was an immigrant and needed asylum. In Matthew 2 we see Matthew's account of Jesus birth and that Herod, the king at the time was threatened by his birth and sought to kill him. Because of this the angel of the Lord told Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt (v13). ...God’s angel showed up again in Joseph’s dream and commanded, “Get up. Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Stay until further notice. Herod is on the hunt for this child, and wants to kill him.”  Now what if t...

The ability to choose it under attack. But this is not the first time nor will it be the last. Starting from Adam and Eve God has given us choice. The choice to love Him, the choice to obey Him, the choice to walk with Him, the choice to worship Him. He's never tried to stifle it, He's never tried to force anything or take it back. He gives you the ability to freely choose how you want to live your life. God of course has a direction He wants you to go that will bring you a future and a hope ( Jeremiah 29:11 ) but you ultimately have the ability to make the choice you want to make. So if no one has ever told you; CHOICE IS OF GOD! At every turn in this country people try to stifle choice in the name of God but that is not of God. I am a pro-choice person because I believe that you have the right to make decisions about your body, who you date/marry, etc and that having choices does bring life. Everyone is entitled to have the best information they can to make a well in...

People make me sick sometimes. When someone loses a loved one no matter how they lose a loved one it is incredibly difficult. To tell them that their loved one is going to hell because they committed suicide is inhumane, unkind, unloving and untrue. Nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus  Romans 8:31-39 If you are saved you cannot lose your salvation. God doesn’t take His gifts back once He gives them. Once you accept His gift of salvation He doesn’t take it back. Peter literally said he didn’t know Jesus 3 times and he got into the kingdom. What happened to compassion? Jesus was always sensitive to the grief and suffering of others especially when a family member died. He himself cried when his dear friend Lazarus died ( John 11 ). I don’t know where this idea that you automatically go to Hell if you commit suicide came from but this is another one of those Sunday stories that were told to you so you wouldn’t do it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say this. W...

"You are born looking like your daddy but you will die looking like your decisions" - Pastor Keion Henderson This is a great word that spoke to my heart. This journey I am on, Lord I don't know what you are doing but I will keep fighting to be who you want me to be. I love Elevation Church . The Unlikely Missionary DHW

We are talking the Gift of Relationship and this has to be one on my favorite songs by Anointed. It's saying Take Me Back because God has never left us, we walked away and the amazing things about God is that He is always willing and able to take us back. ♯♭I don't love you like I used to When nothing came between my god and me And somehow it seems I've lessened my dependence And wonder why it's not the way it used to be But I'm ready to learn how to faithfully love you With my heart, my soul and my mind Take me back, take me back To the time I fell in love I don't serve you like I used to 'Cause I'm too busy serving me And I don't spend the time with you I need to And wonder why my soul cannot find peace ♭ But I'm ready to learn how to faithfully serve you With my hands, my life and my time Take me back, take me back To the time I fell in love (Take me back, take me back, take me back there) In ...

It wasn’t until I was much older that I truly understood that Salvation was more than a get out of hell free card. I accepted Christ when I was a little girl. Partly because I had the fear of God in me but also because even as a child I understood the value of being loved no matter what you do. I have leaned on that truth constantly throughout my life. I often identified with Mary the mother of Jesus when it says she held these things in her heart Luke 2:19). I am very much like that. The words that people say to me or sow into me go straight to my heart, both good and bad. The good things can take me high but the bad things always take me real low and they linger. Being told you are not good enough even when you did your best or being excluded or being disqualified for no reason or being tossed aside for making a mistake messes with you. I often go to God in these moments God often comes to me and whispers to me but I love you, you are enough . This relationship has been crucial in m...

I read in the Facebook comments of an article that God is misogynistic and it troubled my spirit. I am all about girl power. And I have always believed that women are just as important to God as men. We are all God's children. If the Bible and therefore God is misogynistic how could I believe in that? The fact is, I have never believed that the Bible or God is misogynistic. Why? It’s simple really. God says that there are two great commandments and one of them is love your neighbor as yourself ( Matthew 22:35-40 ). If I truly live this commandment I could not be misogynistic because I would treat others the way I want to be treated; with respect, kindness, love and without prejudice. Using the logic from one if I’m not following that commandment I’m sinning and sin is not of God because He is sinless ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ). If God is not sinless than the Bible, His Word is not true and the whole basis of the Christian faith is moot and therefore none of it is true ( 2 Timothy...

Is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We get it all wrong when we tell people they are going to hell. So let me debunk some myths. Being gay doesn’t mean you are going to hell. Cursing doesn’t mean you are going to hell. Having sex before marriage doesn’t mean you are going to hell. Wearing skirts, having an abortion, voting for a female president, getting pregnant out of wedlock does not mean you are going to hell. _________ does not mean you are going to hell. In the blank please add that thing that was told to you in Sunday school so you wouldn’t do it. So the question isn’t what makes you go to hell. According to the Bible, the moment we were born we had a one way ticket there. There are no levels to this. There is no sin that is better than the next or is a little better or is a little worse than the others. The result of all of it is the same. No relationship with God and an eternity burning. "For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life t...