It’s a grind to give a sermon every week. It can be similar for Bible study teachers, bloggers, podcasters, and other spokespersons for Christ. It can drain your soul. I feel compassion for pastors who stand up every week to preach but secretly the well of their own soul is dry. To be expected to…
Adapted from Your Best Life in Jesus’ Easy Yoke by Bill Gaultiere. Often we hurry to be successful in ministry or just get through our responsibilities for the day. But the Bible’s great chapter on love begins with, “Love is unhurried…” (1 Corinthians 13:4, paraphrased). Putting unhurried margin (or soul space) in our schedule and…
In Jesus’ day, a rabbi’s teaching was called a yoke. The teaching-yoke of the religion scholars and priests was an endless list of laws, rules, traditions, and expectations that no one could measure up to — it was nobody’s best life! But Jesus offered to free the people, including the religious leaders, from this deadly…
Featured In Your Best Life In Jesus’ Easy Yoke The best New Year’s resolution I ever made was to pray a simple prayer of the heart propelled me into a great spiritual renewal when I was forty years old. Now it’s the beginning of 2020 and I’m continuing in this prayer! My friend Pastor Bucky Dennis,…
Listen to this episode of Soul Talks: God wants to do good things in your life in this new year! In this episode, Bill and Kristi share “The Apprentice Prayer,” an intentional prayer that has made a powerful impact on their lives. Through the challenges of work, family, and ministry, this prayer can help you…
Jesus is with you in your storm. If you really see this you’ll experience the deep peace that guards your heart (Philippians 4:7). Here’s a Scripture meditation to help you experience Christ’s loving presence with you: Dark storm clouds pelted torrents of freezing rain on Jesus and the disciples, gale winds whipped their boat in…
God is lovingly caring for us — even if the healing we pray for doesn’t happen. “You might think if someone had the gift of healing they’d go to the hospital and heal everyone,” John Wimber remarked, “but Jesus didn’t do that. When he went to the Pool of Bethesda, the hospital of his day,…
Listen to this episode of Soul Talks: God doesn’t always answer our prayers for healing the way we want him to. What does it look like to trust in God’s healing power and abandon outcomes to him? In this episode, Bill and Kristi open up Scripture and their personal stories to wrestle with keeping faith…
Listen to this episode of Soul Talks: Healing prayer is not just for physical healing. God intends for us to have an emotionally and relationally healthy life! In this episode Bill & Kristi share openly about their own individual journeys of emotional and relational healing and the abundant life that is available for each of…
When joining with the Spirit of Jesus to minister healing, it’s important to give yourself permission to be a learner. “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin” (Zechariah 4:10). In all matters of faith, we learn by doing, by putting into practice what we learn from the…
