Apostle David Johndrow - Fire And Grace

Lover: How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. Beloved: How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant. The Bible has some pretty racy stuff, and I skipped some of the more physically graphic illustration from Song of Songs. I was thinking about Jesus today - how so many simply give lip service to Him (not to mention the haters), and it makes me sad. It is not because I think less of them, but because I am certain they don't know Him like I do. I don't doubt if God exists; never even give it a thought. I, like Thomas, don't doubt that Jesus can do miracles either because; also like Thomas, I have seen Him do them. Intimacy with Jesus, it sounds a little strange to me. Think of your closest relationship. If you don't have a spouse, think about the person that you are closest to in life; the one that you love to be with more than anyone else, the intimacy that God has created us for, it's deeper than ...

Do you ever find that most people have some sort of expectation about church, and about the church people in it? I mean they wouldn't think that we are some sort of hypocrites if we lived up to their expectations, right? It is easy to see that sin is the problem, but that can become an excuse for bad behavior. Really, we all sin, and Jesus forgives sin, so as a Christian we are all set. Besides, we are working hard at being good, changing and getting past our past, right? So, why can't we get it right? Sin is the very thing that separates us from God isn't it? As Christians we have all sorts of problems relating to God and sin just adds to the problem. The Bible tells us that Jesus is King, Father and Daddy (Abba). How we relate to a king is probably different than how we relate(d) to our own daddy. In America we don't have a King, but in countries that do, there is a certain reverence expected for the authority of the position. We don't barge in on the king, we, at...