The Process of Transformation Part 3 - A Fresh Definition of Repentence
Transformation: change in form, appearance, nature, or character.By definition, transformation requires change. A caterpillar changes into a butterfly or moth, a tadpole changes into a frog and so on. Change requires that something stops being one thing (a tadpole) or going in one direction (towards being a thief) and becomes another thing (a frog) or goes in another direction (becomes honest). When one changes direction, one repents. Here is one definition of repentance:Repentance is a change of thought and action to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged.For many people, repentance is a b

The Process of Transformation Part 2
Transformation: change in form, appearance, nature, or character.Transformation is always supernatural. No one can be transformed to be more and more like Jesus apart from a move by the Spirit of God in a persons life. The Scriptures teach us in Philippians 2:13 that God is always working in us giving us the desire to obey Him and the power to follow through. This teaches me that God is always willing to walk with a person or family or church down the road of transformation - He is always working in us. God also offers to us the desire to obey Him and also the ability to follow t

The Process of Transformation
Transformation: change in form, appearance, nature, or character.Most people like the idea of transformation. We like to see our bodies morph from flabby to fit or our houses from clean to dirty or our lives from lazy to disciplined. What we don't like is the effort and work it takes to become transformed. When we think of spiritual transformation most people that I know would prefer for God to snap His fingers so the process is begun and completed in the same instance. While this does happen at times, the normal growth in spiritual transformation is a process that takes God's intervention along with our work and effort and this is where the challenge occurs for m

An Early Breakfast in Atlanta
I got up early this morning to have breakfast with two friends. One friend I met a year ago, the other I was meeting for the first time. Both of these friends are believers and both love Jesus very much. You can feel their desire to know Jesus. You can also feel their struggle to follow Jesus with deep passion. They are both committed to church attendance and worship. They both want Jesus to transform them but they are also honest to state that life is just too busy and the responsibilities too large. One of my friends stated that "...going to church on Sunday caused them to feel absolved..." from the previous weeks busyness and infused them with just enough spiritual juice to keep t

Walk Like An Egyptian, er, I mean Christian
Do you remember the song "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles? To walk like an Egyptian you had to...Slide your feet up the street bend your backShift your arm then you pull it backLife is hard you know (oh whey oh)So strike a pose on a cadillac