I read a very good article called “Engaging the Process” by  The C.S. Lewis Institute. As it turns out, this was good timing since I got raging laryngitis almost immediately and needed to lead my Bible study. I chose several paragraphs from the essay and created discussion questions for them. I printed them out and brought it to my women’s Bible study where members volunteered to read the 5 paragraphs and lead the discussions. Great way to handle teaching during an illness that isn’t bad enough to make other people sick, but is bad enough to take your voice! Feel free to use these readings and questions in your study…

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Cor. 10:4-5) “Strongholds” are not necessarily bad things. They can be neutral physical structures like castles. Castles could protect the villages and lands around them, or they could oppress them. Spiritually God can be our stronghold like a might tower. But when we talk about spiritual strongholds these days we are more likely to think about demonic strongholds in our…

Yesterday I read two articles on why churches are shrinking in the United States. Both articles mentioned that Millenials are leaving the church in droves although they discussed different reasons for it. The article-writers took major exception to each other’s conclusions. Statistics and d-ed statistics aside, I found it interesting that neither article mentioned one big fat reason for the shrinking of the church: Satanic activity in the world. This has always been the case since the Fall. For centuries churches were full on Sunday mornings but Satan worked to lead people to think that as long as they were in church they were Christian. Pride and self-righteousness were other…