How is our life like a tree? As the root goes deeper, so fruit grows upward. Likewise, as Christ as declared us righteous, we begin to bear his fruit outwardly.
Knowing God involves both the heart and the mind. The ancient practice of sacred reading involves a process of moving from the mind to the heart through reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation. This is the ninth part of Ken Boa's "Devotional Spirituality" series.
Followers of the contemplative approach make the love of God their supreme and unrivaled object, Ken Boa explains in this sixth part of his "Devotional Spirituality" series.
Ken Boa continues to teach on the degrees of demonic activity: influence, oppression, and control. A list of symptoms of demonic activity follow to aid in the discernment of the possible presence of demons.
In his Wednesday Morning Men's Fellowship class, Dr. Boa introduces some of the imagery and metaphors associated with living in God's presence on an ongoing basis: abiding in the vine, walking by the Spirit, setting your mind on the Spirit, rejoicing always, praying without ceasing, running with endurance.