Humans have been telling ghost stories ever since there have been humans able to tell stories about unexplainable happenings. Evangelical Christians have not done well offering explanations for the paranormal except by saying: “Ghost aren’t real!” In this series we are looking into ghosts, the paranormal and the paranormal occurrences in the Bible along with general understandings of the Holy Spirit.
Ghost Stories
Jesus Unhinged: Jesus Redefines
We tend to label everything, but the problem with labels is that they limit our definitions of what people could be or ought to be. Jesus took the labels that were put upon him and redefined them for kingdom purposes.
Jesus Unhinged: Jesus Chooses
Jesus chooses the most unlikely of people to be a part of his team. Reggie Byrd explains why and how you too can be part of Jesus’ unhinged plan for redeeming unlikely people.
Jesus Unhinged: Jesus Forgives
We often live our lives paralyzed by un-forgiveness. Jesus tells the paralytic that his sins are forgiven and to rise up and walk. We too need to get up out of our paralyzed state and live into the forgiveness Jesus provides for us.
Jesus Unhinged
Guest Speaker Pastor Tim Walk brings a message from Mark 1:25-39 as we see Jesus sneaking away fro rest at just the time he should be capitalizing on his newfound fame…he has come unhinged!
The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Ugly Actions
Our actions can tend to be as ugly as our Christmas sweaters, but God calls us to greater than that, God calls us to love and to allow God’s love to overflow from us into the lives of others.
The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Ugly Motivations
Why do you do what you do? Jesus is more often concerned about the heart behind your actions than your actions themselves because we can to do the right thing for the wrong reason. The Christmas season, make Jesus your motivation – the reason why you do what you do.
The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Ugly Words
Often times the people closest to us bear the brunt of the ugliness that comes our mouths. But as a people of Jesus, we are to be the transmitters of joy and love to others. This does not mean that we can’t be truthful with people and have difficult conversations, but it does mean that…
The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Ugly Thoughts
Untangling Christmas lights is one thing, untangling our minds from negativity to take on joyfulness in the Christmas season is quite another thing. The Apostle Paul gives us a command to rejoice, no matter what our circumstances so that we can have peace in our hearts and in our minds in Christ Jesus.
Make Christ Your King
We often try to create political solutions for spiritual problems, but Jesus brings spiritual solutions fo political problems. Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world and therefore political and geographic boundaries can not be placed upon his kingdom because Jesus comes straight to our hearts to change lives.
What Keeps You Up at Night? Waiting
Sometimes its hard to wait, but it is in the waiting that we are properly formed…Reggie Byrd gives us a challenge to wait, like Jesus waited to bring the miracle for Lazarus and his family.