Mike’s Blogs

Please note the two categories in the right hand column categorizing the articles into personal growth and current events.

Things Christians Think I don’t Understand: Part I

“…that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Rom. 10:9-10) [Note: This will be the first of a series of popular ideas Christians have developed I just don’t understand given what...

The Greatest Commandment?

One of the doctrines drilled into us from the day we come to Christ is that loving the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength should be numero-uno on our to-do list. I have spent considerable time in this work trying to convince you seeking first His...

The Three Big-Uns

“And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.” (Matt. 13:58) I was reading an article by a woman who had been involved in healing ministry around the world for over 40 years. As a minister of healing and deliverance, she wrote something that struck...

Just a Romans 7 sinner? Look again!

The constant struggle between flesh and spirit doesn’t end for those who enter the kingdom. Choosing to spiritually live in one kingdom while our bodies must live in the other presents its challenges. As long as we carry around this “body of death,” as Paul calls it,...

Kingdom Perfection

"Therefore, you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt. 5:48) “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you...

Post Elementary School

"But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away the Helper will not come to you…”  (John 16:7) “Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of...

Do we Need a David or a Solomon?

“But the word of the Lord came to me, saying,…’You shall not build a house to My name because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me. Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every...

Those guys were all wimps!

“It will come about at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps. And I will punish the men who are stagnant in spirit—who say in their hearts, 'The Lord will not do good or evil!'” (Zeph. 1:12) “So, because you are lukewarm…I will spew you out of My mouth.”...

Come enter into His rest

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matt. 11:28-30) For the past...