“The Price of the Oil” – Pastor Tony Stewart

Before the oil exists, there’s the olive. What happens in between the ‘before’ and the ‘after’ is the ‘journey to becoming’ the oil. The ‘to’ place. “Thank you, Pastor Stewart!“ In that forgotten, perhaps overlooked by outsiders place, are the ‘pressing’ moments. As we know it, the olive is pressed until the oil gives way. […]

Reading Digest: “He Had to Go There – the Multicultural Mandate” by Pastor Rae Orozco

“He Had to Go There – the Multicultural Mandate” by Pastor Rae Orozco After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their […]

“Can Women Preach?” – John and Lisa Bevere

“If GOD would have meant for women to be silent, He would not have given us a voice.” ~ Lisa Bevere 28  “And it shall come to pass afterward,    that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,    your old men shall dream dreams,    and your young men shall see visions.29 Even on the male […]

Therapy & Theology: “The Lies We Tell Ourselves” Part One and Part Two – Lysa TerKeurst

32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 ESV When we are called to testify in a court of law, one of the first required actions on the docket is to be sworn in before we utter a word. That swearing in is a public declaration that we vow to, […]