Author: David Takle

Priestly Blessing from God

What God were to speak over us the Priestly Blessing He gave to Aaron? “Let me bless you and keep you. Let me shine my face upon you and be gracious to you. Let me lift up my face unto you and give you my shalom.” — Num.6:24-26  ...

It’s Not About What We Deserve

Christians often express gratitude for their salvation in terms such as, “I am so grateful that God saved me even though I did not deserve it.” I get what they mean, and I understand that they are truly grateful for God’s salvation. I might even wonder about them if...

Our Multi-Faceted Spiritual GPS

Imagine being lost in the woods, trying to find your way out day after day without any way of being sure of where you are going. Then someone shows up with a GPS and suddenly you not only know where you are, but in what direction you can find...

Psalm 23 as a Celebration of Covenant

An uplifting message and a fresh look at Psalm 23. See our Audio Recordings at: https://kingdomformation.org/upcoming-events/recordings/ This is also available on YouTube with images that add even more to the message....

Revisiting Our Healing Moments

Engaging with God over life issues can be one of the most life-giving experiences we can have, as God shows us what we have missed and what we need in order to move on. But we need to stay teachable, because these issues often have more than one layer...

The Answers to Life

In the Introduction to The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard makes a rather startling observation about the gospel as it was preached and received in the first century after Christ. The basic idea here is that prior to the Incarnation of Jesus, Greek philosophers (and others before them) had been...

How Christianity Has Changed

The following is from the Preface in J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Letters to Young Churches. “The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. We are apt...

Why Not Hate?

Sometimes we are hurt or betrayed in ways that seem unforgivable to us. We might experience moments when we wish we could forgive, but the obstacles are way too big and we don’t get very far in letting go. We might even feel justified in hating certain people because...

About Time

We keep trying to put more things into less time. Perhaps we should consider putting more time into fewer things....