by Life Action | Mar 30, 2023 | Disciples, Say Yes to God
Hope is what faith gives us while we are waiting for an answer. The kind of hope we learn about in Scripture is what confidence looks like when we are convinced that God is in control. People with this kind of hope are able to live with unanswered questions and...
by John Avant | Mar 30, 2023 | Presidents Column, Say Yes to God
These are encouraging days. We are actually seeing God send a measure of revival in America, not just overseas! This is the beginning of what we have prayed for. But the movement of God has not yet spread rapidly in local churches. It is mostly being experienced on...
by John Avant | Feb 28, 2023 | Presidents Column, Say Yes to God
On February 20, 2023, our Silver Team began a conference at Oklahoma Baptist University. The timing of this seems obviously providential to me. Nothing could have caused me more joy than to see God move powerfully in revival, almost from the moment we arrived. I think...
by Life Action | Feb 27, 2023 | Disciples, Say Yes to God
In the widely used curriculum Experiencing God, authors Henry Blackaby and Claude King emphasize seven realities of experiencing God. The third of these is: “God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.” There is an important distinction made here that we...
by Life Action | Jan 30, 2023 | Disciples, Say Yes to God
We can hardly imagine what is waiting on the other side of obedience. At the very least, each act of obedience increases our desire to continue obeying, strengthens our spirit, weakens our flesh, and magnifies our capacity to hear and receive guidance from the Holy...
by Life Action | Nov 30, 2022 | Disciples, Say Yes to God
There is a depth of fellowship that can be known only through honesty. David tells of the devastation he felt day after day when he was trying to hide the truth of his behavior from God. Awful things like decaying bones and depleting strength (see Psalm 32). It wasn’t...
by Donna Avant | Oct 31, 2022 | Say Yes to God
This past spring, I found myself struggling with sadness. No one had died recently. There were no tragic circumstances. I was just downhearted. I made the decision to methodically go through the book of Philippians. Many writers and theologians call it the book of...
by Life Action | Oct 31, 2022 | Disciples, Say Yes to God
Paul and Solomon’s lives followed similar trajectories. Both men could boast high accomplishments. Solomon described his in the book of Ecclesiastes, and Paul listed his in the early verses of Philippians 3. Still, their impressive pasts left both men short of the...
by Life Action | Sep 29, 2022 | Say Yes to God
Waiting can be a challenge, even for those who are in Christ, and even for those who have experienced a good outcome from previous times of waiting. We don’t always carry the last victory into the newest challenge. As humans, we have accomplished forgetters. God may...
by Life Action | Aug 31, 2022 | Say Yes to God
Job the wealthy landowner and Paul the bi-vocational itinerant preacher came to the same conclusion about accumulating riches. Job: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return” (Job 1:21). Paul: “We brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take...
