Category Archives: false prophets

Developing Discernment

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Steve Simms

Jesus said: “Many false prophets shall appear and deceive many people.” (Matthew 24:11) How can we recognize and avoid false prophets? Their lives will lack the fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) They won’t have these qualities: * Love — … Continue reading →

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How To Recognize a True Christian

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Steve Simms

When I try to use self-effort to cook up the fruit of the Spirit, I always fail. Only the Holy Spirit can produce it in my life. Here’s how to spot genuine Christ-followers. According to the Bible they are doers … Continue reading →

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Popular Culture and Contemporary Religion Are Both Denying Much That Is Self-Evident,

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Steve Simms

In the Gospels, Jesus warned His followers to beware of false prophets. That’s a warning that Christians seem to ignore today. Almost anybody who says he or she is a Christian minister and starts a church or buys radio or … Continue reading →

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I hope people say they see Jesus in me.

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Steve Simms

I hope and I pray that people see Christ living in and through me throughout each day. I do my best to make that happen by seeking to listen to and obey the risen Jesus with all my heart. I … Continue reading →

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Do you realize your desires contain real lies?

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Steve Simms

Unless we realizeThat our feelings,Thoughts, and desiresContain real liesWe’ll be misledBy their false disguise. No matter how muchWe’ve been taughtUntil we’ve soughtAnd bravely foughtTo make every thoughtObedient to ChristWe’ll be caughtIn deception. To be led by the SpiritIs to do … Continue reading →

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Making the most of the marvelous mystery of Christ in you . . .

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Steve Simms

To delight in what you desire is death. To delight in what God desires is life. Grace isn’t the end of salvation. It’s the beginning. Christ comes into people as a seed. In a heart that is poor in spirit, … Continue reading →

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The vibrance of spiritually spontaneous Christianity

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Steve Simms

When Spirit-filled Christianity stops allowing spontaneity and succumbs to structure and systemization it soon gets stale. When every faithful Christ-follower is recognized as a priest of the living God, Christianity will be revolutionized! God’s voice, heard without ears, but with your … Continue reading →

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