Mark of the Beast Explained: 666, the Antichrist, and Revelation 13
Rick Renner
Explosive Power
We cannot underestimate the reality that at times God works with clear and demonstrable power. In Acts 2, his entrance took their breath away and was undeniable, irresistible and incredibly powerful.
Read the Greatest Book of All Time Every Day for Lent
God’s Word is alive. It’s different than reading any other book—even books about the Bible. The Word of God is different. There’s life in it. If you take it, the Word will give you life where there’s been death. It gives light where there was darkness. It’s that simple.
Who Has Influenced You?
If you stop and think about it, much of who you are today is an accumulation of countless influences you have been exposed to throughout the course of your life. Of course, you have also been highly impacted by the decisions you made about things you have seen, learned, and experienced. You have likely chosen to embrace and incorporate into your life certain positive influences from your past, and you have also probably rejected other influences and disallowed them a place in your life.
8 Sins of The Pulpit Today
It can be taken also that all scripture is meant for pulpit ministers too. You can’t declare yourself above living righteously because you are divinely set in a ministry position over the congregation. Godliness is profitable for all believers, including those called into full-time ministry, those deriving their income from preaching and teaching the Word of God to others. So I say it again, all scripture is meant for all believers.
Committing to a Fast
It is important to understand the effects of fasting on the spirit, soul, and body. Before committing to a fast, I encourage you to study the Word of God and to read books that provide important nutritional and other health information. Understanding will help to avoid harm and injury—both physically and spiritually.
His Eyes Are a Flame of Fire
A life of holiness is expected and demanded by our Lord Jesus. Get rid of the image of an overindulgent Jesus who will let you brush off sin and ignore the things you are doing! He is merciful and gracious to “forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9), but don’t think He doesn’t care if we sin. His eyes are a flame of fire!
7 Factors The Lord Uses to Judge Our Works
It is amazing that God has actually given us the criteria by which our works will be judged. We have a pretty good idea from Scripture what God will be looking for and at when our works are judged.
Rick Renner’s Salvation Experience
Rick Renner sits in Glenwood Baptist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma and recalls the time he was a 5 year old little boy and took his pastors hand and said I want to give my heart to Jesus!
The 9 Gifts of the Holy Spirit
I want to add that the gifts of the Spirit often work in pairs
or in groupings. For example, where the working of miracles is
at work, it is often accompanied by special faith — and these
two gifts working together can move mountains of opposition
that literally are impossible to move in the natural realm.
God Used Little Kids to Spark a Revival!
The next day little third and fourth graders asked their teachers if they could pray instead of going to recess. They wanted to come down in front of the church and pray. So they came down and started praying, and the whole bunch of them fell out in the Spirit. They just fell out on the floor while they were praying, and kept on praying. They were there for two or three hours. Little kids.
A Husband Like Jesus
God has a very specific idea of the man’s role in marriage. From the beginning, God intended that man be an image and reflection of God Himself, portraying God’s loving and generous characteristics to his wife and children. In fact, God’s definition of a husband is far greater than whatever images we’ve previously gathered from our family, our culture, our past, and whatever is portrayed through the media.
5 Simple Tips for Sex & Romance in Marriage
How can you make sure that these parts of your marriage are as strong as it can possibly be? There are a few things that husbands need and a few things that wives need to feel fulfilled in this aspect of the marriage relationship…
Renovate Your Mind and Transform Your Life
The renovation of the mind leads to the transformation of the life. The superhuman effects of regeneration in the life of a believer is limited by the extent to which the mind has been renovated. It is simple: If you do not renew your mind, you will not enjoy the superhuman life that God has for you. The word for transform in Romans 12:2 illustrates a beautiful and powerful example. Transform means “to change into another form and to transfigure.” In Romans 12:2, it says we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. The fact that the word is renewing instead of renewed tells us that this is a continual process, not a one-time event. The renewing of the mind is a process that begins at salvation and continues throughout the Christian life.
Satan Will Use Everything he Can to Attack You
You need to recognize why the attack is happening. Satan will not only use affliction and persecution, but he will also use the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches—either with you or against you—and the lust of other things to choke the Word and make it become unfruitful (see Mark 4).
The Day Dwight Moody Was Filled with the Holy Spirit
“I began to cry as I never did before. I really felt that I did not want to live if I could not have this power for service…”
Accept Him For Who He is
A husband looks for a secure, safe place in his wife. Proverbs 31:11 (KJV) describes this place: “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her….” This is not a complaining place on our part, nor a criticizing place. It’s not a place he wants to run from, but rather a place he wants to run to. Your husband needs you to be a friend to him who is supportive and kind — a person he can go to and know that you are on his side.
Your Words Are the Key to Health… or Death
People who have an image of themselves being in poor health will talk about poor health. Even though they may be in good health, they seem to live out the reality of the image they have of themselves, even unto death…
Where We’re Going we Don’t Need Roads!
"Show me the right path oh Lord. Point out the road for me to follow." Psalm 25:4
God has a path that will take you to your future but it might not be the road someone else took. Where You're going you don't need the road they took. You need to road God has for you!
I Was a Burned Out Missionary, Then Jesus Walked into my Room…
The next morning at six o’clock, Jesus Christ walked into our bedroom. When I saw Him, it seemed as though all physical strength left my body. I lay there as though paralyzed, unable to move a finger or a toe. Water poured from my eyes, though I was not conscious of weeping.
Superhuman Authority for Healing
As Paul said, we have been rescued from the authority of darkness and have been translated into the Kingdom of the Son of His love (see Col. 1:13). Satan and all of the kingdom of darkness cannot make believers do anything, because believers have been delivered from the dominion of darkness and granted their own dominion. The power of dominion that believers have received is far above all the powers and authority of darkness.