Luke 10:38-42 38 Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; 42 but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” NASU

I. Fall in Love with the One You’re Praying To

Martha’s heart was more captivated by ministry, service, doing, and works than she was by the Person of Jesus Christ. Her heart was absolutely captivated by these things. Now, don’t get me wrong, feeding Jesus and 12 other fellas’ bellies was quite a chore and a sacrifice…but Jesus makes it clear in this passage that she had missed the mark…and that Mary was actually the one who got it right…Mary’s heart was captivated by the Person of Jesus Christ more than serving Jesus Christ. continue reading » »

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
- 2 Corinthians 5:17

Change is inevitable. Day changes to night, children change to adults, winter changes to mud season (and quickly back to winter). And the elimChristianFellowship.net website has changed it’s look… again! continue reading » »

While some of us tentatively climb on the scales to see of the results of Thanksgiving pies and Christmas cookies, many Americans have gained another type of weight that the bathroom scales can’t measure. It’s doesn’t show on our mid-rifts or thighs, but it’s effect on our health and relationships can be far more damaging - it’s the weight of the chains of bondage called financial debt.

Proverbs 22:7, “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender” (NRSV)

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I was greatly encouraged this past Saturday by God’s faithfulness to respond to intercession by His kids. This past Saturday (Nov 25th, 2006), in Augusta, Maine, there was a Holistic Mystic Fair event held in the Holiday Inn conference rooms. Various “vendors” purchased tables from Enchanted Dragon business owner, Mary Alderman, to display their wares and entice the Kennebec Valley to consult mediums, spiritists, alternative healers, sorcerers, witches and the like. continue reading » »

Let me start my reply to these questions by referring directly to the life of Christ…

A close examination of the Gospels will reveal that Jesus spent significant time with large crowds of followers, preaching, teaching and ministering to the multitudes of physically, emotionally and spiritually afflicted. Upon even more thorough examination of the Gospels one will discover that He actually spent the majority of His three years of ministry time with the 12 disciples. These disciples were the ones, initially, that He would hand the baton to when His earthly ministry would cease and His heavenly ministry would begin. He invested in them, ate with them, equipped them, taught them, admonished them, encouraged them, led them and generally just spent time loving them. When it came to discipleship, Jesus humbly limited Himself to this inner circle of twelve. He would entrust the future of the Church into the hands of these disciples. continue reading » »

Let me share with you an experience I had with the Lord that changed my life in such a way that I’ll never, never be the same again. One day, in my prayer closet, I sensed the Lord drawing me and guiding me to discover my inheritance as His son. Up to this point in my Christian walk of faith, I had left the inheritance unattended to, unstudied, undiscovered. I had wrongly believed that to walk in my inheritance would be arrogant and self-centered - I mean after all, I didn’t deserve any inheritance and I was trying to be humble! I didn’t understand how important and how valuable the inheritance was, nor did I understand that an inheritance is given to sons, it isn’t earned by servants or slaves. continue reading » »

When I was an instructor in the U.S. Navy, stationed in beautiful, warm, and sunny Pensacola, Florida, I took a roughly 3 hour road trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to experience Jazz, Cajun cookin’ and a live NFL football game. With ticket in hand, I entered this humongous dome known as the Superdome to see the New Orleans Saints (an NFL football team) play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I had purchased the cheapest ticket available and found myself seated so high in the air that the players on the field looked like ants. If I had gone just a few rows higher, I’m sure nosebleeds and difficulty breathing would have come upon me. Though I couldn’t see the action on the field very well, one memory I have of that experience is the supportive proclamation the crowd declared about their football team to the opposing fans and players. It was a declaration of confidence in their team (that season it wasn’t really declared too frequently, as the Saints were mediocre at best) in the best Cajun/Creole accent that culture can provide. Opposing players in the NFL, during game week were (and still are) often quoted by the press as boastfully predicting that their team would crush the Saints. After hearing such predictions by opponents, the Saints fans would receive that as a personal affront and would respond as the game began to tilt in their favor with this chant declared to the opposing team as the reality of defeat became more and more inevitable. They would say, ‘Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints? Who dat say?’ continue reading » »