By Pete Briscoe
August 14, 2018
A long time ago, in a house far, far away, my kids learned to walk. First, a “scootch” became a crawl. Then, a crawl became a stand. Then, a stand became a step… followed immediately by a fall.
By Pete Briscoe
August 13, 2018
We've been investigating the question, "How do I live in holiness?" That's a heavy-sounding question, and it seems like the answer is going to be loaded with a bunch of religious do-it-yourself pressure.
By Pete Briscoe
August 12, 2018
Belief doesn't automatically cause life-change. That's probably one of the biggest hiccups in evangelicalism today: We think that if we know something in our heads, we’re automatically...
By Pete Briscoe
August 11, 2018
I, for one, am really glad that God never gave us the "what to do" without also giving us the "how to do it." When God calls us into holy living, the call comes with the emerging conviction that our lives are supposed to be different.
By Pete Briscoe
August 10, 2018
We’ve been digging deep into our identity in Christ, focusing on the blazing truth about our single Christ-like nature that we have since our old, sinful self was crucified with Christ. You probably even...
By Pete Briscoe
August 9, 2018
It doesn’t matter what flavor of flesh you favor (USDA Choice, Homemade Vanilla or Yuck), living by the flesh just doesn’t work. Those with USDA Choice flesh end up self-righteous.
By Pete Briscoe
August 8, 2018
The last flavor of flesh identified by Gillham is Yuck flesh. Yuck flesh is failure flesh—those who feel they are out after the first three pitches; those who compare their performance to others
By Pete Briscoe
August 7, 2018
Yesterday we looked at the first kind of flesh that Bill Gillham identified. The second kind of flesh Bill Gillham identified is Homemade Vanilla flesh.
By Pete Briscoe
August 6, 2018
Everyone one of us battles with the flesh. But what is it anyway? It’s been defined in many ways. A literal interpretation would say that it is anything and everything physical about us...
By Pete Briscoe
August 5, 2018
We spent a good amount of time discovering how our old sinful nature was crucified with Christ, but quite frequently the question comes up, “Why does my Bible tell me not to live by the sinful nature if...