by Michael Floyd | Sep 27, 2024 | Blog Home
If you have read many of the Ventures newsletter The Hidden Treasures of Messiah Jesus (or been exposed to much of Pastor McCarty’s teaching at all), then you know the heart of Ventures for Christ is to see followers of Jesus become “Cross Disciples,” those who live...
by office | May 28, 2015 | Blog Home
We now come to our fourth revelational issue about our circumstances. Let’s review the first three issues. We see that 1) circumstances don’t exist by accident. We cannot simply change them for our pleasure and plans. Rather, 2) they exist for God to creatively use as...
by office | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog Home
Our definition of the word circumstance literally means the things that stand (stances) around (circa). As long as we live all of us will always have issues, demands, duties, pressures, and some crises standing around us. Most will delight or challenge while many can...
by office | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog Home
I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “under the circumstances.” I do recall that it had to do with people being under pressure and trying to maintain some kind of joy and victory even though their circumstances were weighing them down...
by office | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog Home
Shirley and I were watching a dramatic television show recently where a young woman and her husband were happily on the way to the hospital to deliver her firstborn. But on the way she and her husband were involved in a tragic auto accident. Both of them were alive...
by office | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog Home
The beloved Paul prayed for the Ephesians (and us) that “… the Spirit of wisdom and revelation would enlighten our hearts …” (Eph. 1:18). To be so enlightened means the Lord Himself continually explains to us the reasons for the good and evil on earth as...
by office | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog Home
Having sought to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus for over 60 years and to disciple others as well, I have come to a solid conviction about the only three possible attitudes that a Christian can have about their following of the Lord. Those three mindsets or attitudes...
by office | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog Home
A Testimony of Greatness “When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me, I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given me. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in...
by office | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog Home
I’m a committed believer in the fact that all reality is triune. Nothing really exists for us or has full meaning unless we see the three parts, the three essences, the three facts, the three expressions that make it what it is. This given in our creation begins...
by office | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog Home
In the book I’m working on I have a chapter on the subject of The Spiritual Scale to Lamb-Lion Splendor. I discuss the two high points of these two great words – Lamb and Lion – and what they should mean for us in our daily Christian walk. In the Gospel of John...
