Author Archives: Speakfaithfully
The Christian Spirituality of Try Harder you Sinner
Dr. Dale Ryan, a professor here at Fuller who was a pastor for a number of decades suggests that if you took all of the sermons preached on Sunday in American and put them in a giant pot, and boiled … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Personal Commentary
Tagged burn out, Christianity, performance based faith, scandal, spirituality, try harder, works righteousness
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Signs that Make you Wonder: My Prophetic Words from Pihop
Last July a large part of my journey of faith was receiving prophetic words and words of encouragement at the Well, a ministry that Pihop runs every Saturday night. The accuracy of these words and the situations they spoke … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Jesus Christ, ministry, prophetic, The Well, words of knowledge
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To hallmarks of following Jesus: a life altering allegiance and being empowered by the Spirit of God
So if following Jesus was not supposed to look like what is on offer in most of Christian, what was it supposed to look like? While this is a much larger topic, I want to just bring up two of … Continue reading
Christianity is a highly secularized civil religion.
[In my initial post on why I left Christianity I stated that I wanted to discuss four core issues I have seen within Christianity. In my last several posts I have discussed how the most widespread approach to the Bible … Continue reading
Addendum: Is the Bible the “Word of God” that is “God-breathed” and “useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness?”
In the course of writing my last series of blogs two issues came up that I could not fit into my previous posts, but I believe deserve consideration. The issue is that there are two scriptural passages that I have … Continue reading
Accepting an invitation to follow Jesus…
At the first night of the School of Supernatural Ministry (SSM) I felt led to go “all in” with my involvement with the School of Supernatural Ministry and at Pihop. Since my own experiences in inner healing prayer I have … Continue reading
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A little over ten years ago, as a seventeen year old kid, I saws of the Kingdom of God and the Body of Christ when I was on a short term missions trip to Mexico. This look was very brief … Continue reading
If the “Truth mine” approach to the Bible is so broken, why is it so widespread and why do Christians keep using it?
[In my previous posts I have suggested approaching the Bible as a “truth mine,” to be excavated for eternal and divine truths that are applicable to everyone, is problematic for several reasons. The development and nature of the Bible itself … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical interpretation, Christian worldview, Christianity, divine authority, ignorance, ignorant Christians, interpretation, Jesus, judgmentalism, legalism, scriptural interpretation, spiritual abuse, spiritual power, stable worldview, the Bible, treating the Bible as a truth mine, Western Christianity, Western Culture, worldview
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Speakfaithfully 
The Spirituality of the Beloved Princes and Princesses
The healthiest model of the spiritual dynamics of those following Jesus Christ I know of comes from Dr. Chuck Miller in his book The Spiritual Formation of Leaders. Also, buy this book. It is worth $100. This model is called … Continue reading →