Beyond “Churchianity” to the Love of Jesus

Posted on October 8, 2026 by Steve Simms
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What’s the best way to meet new people while traveling?
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If you’re a genuine Christian, Jesus is closer to you than you can imagine. He lives inside you, even when you don’t perceive His presence. (1 John 4:4) Your body is His temple. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) Train yourself to be continually aware of, awake to, and attentive to “Christ in you.” (Colossians 1:27)

Don’t just ask Jesus for things. Seek to know Him better and better. Open your eyes and ears and begin to notice and respond to what He is doing and saying within and around you.

Allow Christ’s rivers of living water to flow from your innermost being. (John 67:38-39) Let Him lead you throughout each day by the inner promptings of His Spirit. (Romans 8:14)

Christians are supposed to so powerfully demonstrate Christ’s presence and love that people want to become Christians. (Matthew 5:16) Letting people see Christ living and producing the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) in and through you is how to show people the Savior!

Disagreeing with someone about morals isn’t judgment. It’s freedom of conscience. Demonstrating Christ’s love isn’t about approval. It’s about kindness, compassion, mercy, and forgiveness. Let Jesus train you to humbly speak the truth in love. (Ephesians 4:15)

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Have You Experienced These 3 Loves?

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Steve Simms
A Bouquet of 3 Loves
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A Bouquet of 3 Loves

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Steve Simms

Jesus told His followers to have a strange bouquet of three loves. As Jesus described them, those three loves are individually rare and seldom seen together as a bouquet. How many of the three do you have?

1) All-out love for God: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (Matthew 12:30)

2) Neighbor love: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 12:31) Focus on your neighbor’s needs and well being as much as you focus on your own.

3) Enemy love: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Luke 6:27-28)

Love never justifies, excuses, or applauds wrongdoing, self-destruction, impurity, or whatever else the Bible calls sin. It compassionately speaks against those things with mercy, forgiveness, and an invitation to the healing of repentance.

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Experiencing Christ Beyond Religious Legalism

Posted on October 6, 2026 by Steve Simms
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What’s the most underrated life skill?
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Studying, analyzing, and trying to explain God’s law doesn’t produce life. The Bible says that it produces death.

Jesus calls us beyond a legalistic approach that tries to understand God, systematize and rationalize theology, and institutionalize faith. Instead, He offers “whosoever will” the opportunity to come and have a never-ending, heart-to-heart relationship with Him.

Jesus wants to give you “peace that passes understanding,” and “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Are you consistently experiencing those gifts day and night?

Peace that passes understanding is deep, inner tranquility that can’t be explained, analyzed, or figured out. It bypasses the mind and can only be experienced, savored, and enjoyed deep inside your heart.

Joy unspeakable and full of glory is delight that spontaneously flows from God through a human heart. It is so beautiful and pure that no words can explain it.

You can’t simply think your way to genuine, unshakable inner peace and joy. They are produced by humbly and consistently surrendering your thoughts, feelings, and desires to the living Jesus Christ and allowing Him to do His will in and through you throughout each day.

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Encouraged by Numbers

Posted on October 4, 2026 by Steve Simms

Since 2014, my wife Ernie and I have been seeing three or more of the same number in a row — 333, 777, 111, 5555, etc. — several times a day. We see them on digital clocks, signs, television, odometers, phones, computers, and in books and magazines. It happens far too many times to be a coincidence.

We don’t intentionally look for them. We suddenly notice them and are continually surprised to see them. Here’s an article I wrote when we first started seeing them.

We were seeing the same number repeated so many times that we began to try to figure out what it meant. It finally came to us that it means alignment with God. We began to notice that we would see aligned numbers at the very moment we started to feel discouragement, disappointment, or doubt. Now, every time we see three or more numbers aligned, we feel greatly encouraged as if God is telling us, “I’ve got this under control,” and “You’re right where you’re supposed to be

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My “Magic” Moment

Posted on October 3, 2026 by Steve Simms
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What’s a moment in your life that made you feel truly alive?
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The moment I first felt truly alive was the moment I woke up to the presence, power, and love of the risen Jesus. I was a freshman in college and reluctantly visited an enthusiastic gathering of Jesus Freaks in the lobby of my dorm. They talked about Jesus like He is real, living, and present today. As they did, something happened within me and in a moment, I suddenly became aware of Christ living in and around me. A passionate love for Him filled my heart and I have never been the same. Fervent adoration for Jesus has never left me!

You can’t sleepwalk with Jesus! Wake up and continually let Him demonstrate His presence within, though, and around you.

Stop offering yourself as a slave to impure thoughts. Open your heart to God, surrender to the presence of Christ in you, and be led by His holy thoughts and inner promptings.

Reject the devil’s thoughts of accusation, temptation, intimidation, and frustration. Keep them out of your mind.

Embrace God’s thoughts of revelation and inspiration. Let them be your constant meditation. Fill your heart with adoration of His majesty.

I wrote this poem the night I first encountered the living Jesus: 

Today I saw the Son
Rising from the water, 
Now wine,
And felt His warmth
Caressing me, 
As I disrobed 
And submerged.
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I Wish That . . .

Posted on October 2, 2026 by Steve Simms

I wish that Christians wouldn’t ignore Jesus’ commands to love one another and to love your enemies. I wish they would wholeheartedly obey them.

Although Jesus doesn’t approve of many of our behaviors, He loves illegal immigrants, Democrats, Muslims, addicts, Republicans, adulterers, homosexuals, the gender confused, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Arabs, Asians, Africans, Europeans, and any other group of people you can think of. Will you love them too? (John 3:16)

You don’t know the condition of another person’s heart. You see their outward appearance, but you don’t know their heart. You aren’t aware of what’s going on inside them — their feelings, concerns, worries, fears, guilt, pain, discouragement, frustration, struggles, temptations, and desires. “Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) Instead of seeing people as a threat, ask God to help you see all people with love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, and mercy.

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Is Your Garden Hose Flowing?

Posted on October 2, 2026 by Steve Simms

Most people have picked up a water hose, turned on the faucet, and had nothing come out. Then when they have examined the hose they have seen that kinks are shutting down the water flow.

The same thing happens to Christians. Kinks in their heart, mind, and behaviors prevent the Holy Spirit’s living water from flowing within and through them.

Many have no idea of the presence and power of God that they are missing out on. If only they would listen to God and let Him show them how to remove their kinks, they would begin to the experience an inner flow of indescribable joy and incomprehensible peace.

“Quench not the Spirit.

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Unkinked Christianity

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Steve Simms

If you’re a Christian,
It’s vital to know,
God’s released the flow
Of Christ inside you,
The hope of glory.

Unkink your heart
Like a garden hose
Until God’s living
Water freely flows.
Quench not the Spirit.

Humble yourself and remove the kinks in your heart until you experience the ongoing joy of unquenched, kink-free Christianity! The flow of Divine Revelation produces the fruit of spiritual elevation and inner transformation.

The Bible is about spiritual direction from God that leads to intimate, flowing, heart-to-heart connection with God. It’s not primarily about information. It’s about supernatural transformation. Read it regularly with an open, hungry heart.

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The “Ize” Have It! (Setting My “Ize” on Christ)

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Steve Simms
Daily writing prompt
Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself?
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The “Ize” Have It! Which ize are you looking through? Open your eyes and see supernaturally.

Jesus didn’t die and rise from the dead so people can intellectualize, theorize, and theologize about Him. He lives so people can realize and personalize Him as their absolute Lord and God! (John 20:28)

Don’t just mentalize, analyze, or memorize what the Bible says about Jesus. Arise in the Spirit and “heartorize” it! Ponder it. Let His words burn in your heart. (Colossians 3:2)

Allow Jesus to live in you and direct your thoughts, words, and actions to conform to His will. Let Him energize and spiritualize your life with His presence, power, and love. (Colossians 1:27)

Refuse to systematize and formalize your faith! “Disciple-ize” it! Always be led by Christ’s Spirit. (Romans 8:14)

Avoid being lukewarm. (Revelation 3:15-16) By being a nominal Christian, Sunday morning only, you unintentionally trivialize your faith.

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