|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

A lack of teachability is the greatest threat to the Church. Love is growing cold because hearts are growing hard. Your heart is your mind, will, and emotions. For anything to come in and soften your heart, you must be willing to move, add to, or yield whatever is already there. As arrogance increases, teachability decreases. Because so much information is available... Literally, you can find someone saying whatever it is you already believe... Very little truth is embraced. This is a promised aspect of our days: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 NKJV — I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their e...

The WHO of faith is what matters.   God is rebirthing us to stop trying to figure out how we will have what we need and instead connect us to the "who" we need. Adam and Eve lost the complete confidence in who, and the whole world changed. The "who" of faith determines the source of our leadership. God has always made a way for the how. Genesis 3:11 And He said, " Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" God's word reassures me of all the things I am tempted to worry about how.   Matthew 6:30-34 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all ...