It’s one thing to see the beauty of Jesus Christ, but it’s an entirely different thing to see your personal beauty in the grace of God. In the Church, our problem isn’t mostly that we don’t believe Jesus is beautiful, awesome and glorious, but that we don’t see ourselves as beautiful, awesome and glorious in […]
The road to maturity in Christ is often a much bumpier road than most people plan for. This isn’t because Jesus is difficult to follow, but because there is so much inside of us that Jesus is working out so that He can work in His kingdom. The goal in Christianity is to get over […]
In the previous three weeks we have spent ample time looking at both an overview of the entire Song of Songs and also the history of the Song of Songs. If you haven’t looked at those yet, I would challenge you to start with the first three chapters before you seek to jump into the […]
In this Chapter we are going to look at the second half of the bride’s journey in Song of Songs chapters 5 through 8. It’s here in this chapter that the bride starts to understand that not only does she have an inheritance in Christ, but that He also has one in her. This truth […]
In 2006 Jennifer and I (Patrick Walton) had a powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit at City Bible Church in Portland, OR. During this encounter the Holy Spirit wrote the first and second commandments upon our hearts in a sovereign way. What I mean by sovereign, is that God did something in our hearts, joining […]
How I Became Acquainted With The Song Of Songs Hidden in the middle of the Old Testament is a dusty gem, a Bible book that many within the Church have overlooked and relegated to the women’s ministry. I have found it a good indicator that when leaders in the body of Christ stay away from […]
Merry Christmas! I trust that you have had plenty of time to recover from the feasts of Thanksgiving and are now ready for the tasty morsels that present themselves during the Christmas season. A lifelong favorite of mine (Patrick) are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, PACKED inside my stocking. I like to unwrap several at a […]
In this last and final chapter of our study of the book of Revelation I will close it with Revelation chapter’s 21 and 22. It needs to be said that this is not a complete study of the Revelation, even in these final two chapters. In fact, this final chapter is really going to primarily […]
The holiday season is surely upon us, with Thanksgiving not to many days away and Christmas on its heels. Personally, these are our favorite times of the year with the trees turning brilliant colors, crisp air, always plenty of family, and good food. This year our family will be spending the entire holiday season together […]
It’s hard to image a day when evil is no more, when all wrong things have been made right and that which we used to know is no more because a new age has come. Our minds, especially those of us that have been reared in Western culture, struggle to believe and live for something […]