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As Christianity has devolved further and further from the purity of the organic design of the first century Church it has become more and more mechanized. Mechanization is a process wherein intricate actions are studied and broken down to their simplest components so that they can be done mindlessly….by machines. As this happened in the textile industry, for example, the beauty of individually inspired rugs was all but lost and has been replaced by mass produced ones. They just don’t represent the creativity of individually created ones; these rugs no longer mean as much as they used to mean. In the Church this “mechanization” has negatively affected holy ideas. It seems that words like love

As I was driving to my office today and saw this on the side of the road I was prompted by the Lord to go back and take a picture of it. The Lord shares many spiritual insights with me using everyday things. When alcohol was first sold in our county people who opposed that did so for many reasons. One was that we would begin seeing beer cans and bottles littering our streets. Sure enough, there isn’t a week that goes by during which I don’t spend some time gathering beer bottles that have been thrown on my lawn as people drive by. This is not, though, an article about the evils of drinking. This morning the Lord reminded me that many people who use alcohol and drugs often treat the people in

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone CHEAT you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:6-10) This is sobering: The word "cheat" means "to be led away as booty" having been conquered. Now, before the crass world we live in started using the word "booty" to refer to the bod

I was led to this verse today and quote it with absolutely no one in mind. I've just experienced this in the past and it was nice to see that when we are hated because we stand for something true...we are in good company. In Galatians 4:16, the Apostle Paul writes, "Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?" We can do things on purpose to make ourselves the enemy of another. Or we can become another's enemy because that person makes us his enemy in his own mind. Paul experienced that first one as a Jew persecuting Christians. He experienced that second one as a Christian simply obeying the Holy Spirit of God. That second one isn’t so bad. If we are hated for obeying Go

Did You Know? Did you know that I am President of Mike McInerney Ministries, Inc. in Decatur, TX? Did you know that we are a true “faith-only” ministry, never having charged anyone anything for any way we have served them? Did you know that because of that that I function as missionary to the North Texas area but also in other parts of the USA and foreign countries on short term ministry trips? Did you know that I am licensed and ordained as a Minister of the Lord Jesus Christ and hold an MA degree in Counseling? Did you know that I have 26 years’ experience in counseling as well as pastoral care (in the first century style), preaching, teaching (face-to-face, online and abroad), prison/jail