Let’s return to the things of the normal world. In other words I am not continuing to look at the strongholds from the evil world. Some of you were a little shocked by that subject matter and by the one example I shared. So let’s …
Dealing with the Strongholds in Our Lives
Identifying the Strongholds in our Lives
In the last Nugget I talked about how other people can exert pressure on us and try to manipulate us into a stronghold for their own gratification or feelings of inadequacy. Those situations are hard to deal with but require perseverance and strength of character …
Strongholds – The Stephen Stones and the David Stones
I want to continue the thoughts that I was exploring a couple of Nuggets which touched so many of you. Well actually it was Tania’s story I told that touched you I am sure, but the topic is a very important one. This time I …
Understanding how Dependence, Independence and Submission Work Together
Over the last Nuggets I have led you on a deliberate journey showing you the kinds of Strongholds which can develop in our lives and how they occur. Then we have addressed how to identify and deal with the strongholds we find. Last week I …
Breaking Strongholds: The Goal – Interdependence and Submission
Allow me in this Nugget on Strongholds to remind you from where we have come and spell out more clearly where we are heading. I wrote in the last Nugget the following statements: We are all on the continuum of Dependence – moving from Dependence …
Strongholds:- Back to Basics – A Return to Elemental Principles / Beginnings
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately on the basics and Bible basics. The elemental principles. Biblically for that we have to go back to Genesis – Beginnings or In the Beginning. I have had occasion too to be thinking about minimal pairs. …
Strongholds in Marriage Revisited
Let’s delve deeper into the matter of mutual submission, and the issue of the man being the head of the woman, and wives needing to submit to their husbands. Allow me to take you back to the crux of the issue and the verse in …
Nugget:Strongholds in Marriage – Understanding The Key:- Love & Respect
I wrote in the previous Nugget “I have another bombshell to deliver from what Paul wrote”. I discovered this bombshell or surprise some years ago when reading my Bible. Reading a passage that I had read over and over and not noticed the surprise. I …
Nugget: Liberty or License; Sin or Semantics – Dealing with a Knotty Problem
In the last Nugget I dealt with the notion of “God’s Perspective of a Hero of Faith” and used the passage from Hebrews 11:32-39 I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more–Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, …
Nugget: “Abraham was Unwaivering in Faith” – Really?
What is happening here? We all know that Abraham was compromised on his stand of faith. He faltered twice before world leaders over his wife Sarah. To save his own skin he was willing to abandon his wife to a pharaoh and a king’s harem. …