Tag Archives: church

The Game of Life

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Steve Simms

My favorite game is the game of life. It’s much less routine and much more exciting than most people realize. There’s so much scenery in my “ordinary” backyard. What amazing views! Every leaf and every bunch of leaves sways with … Continue reading →

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What’s On the Screen in Your Heart?

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Steve Simms

The prophet Ezekial describes Christ’s rock of revelation: “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they … Continue reading →

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The Excitement That Has Never Left Me

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Steve Simms

Humility, kindness, and honesty cause people to be curious about what you believe. After Paul, the sent one, was falsely accused by the religious people in the city of Jerusalem and imprisoned for two years, He was finally sent to … Continue reading →

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The Sunday Christian audience is failing

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Steve Simms

To know the teachings of Christ, without the life of Christ thriving in and through you, is incomplete Christianity. The Sunday Christian audience isn’t getting the job done. There’s not much power in being religious spectators. There’s no place for … Continue reading →

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Battery Church

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Steve Simms

Battery “church” is like a special battery, all decked out to preach to some lowly batteries. Unfortunately, it’s powerless because there are no connections and little unity for the power to flow through. Christianity’s not sitting in a religious audience … Continue reading →

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Jesus is eternal, but sermons aren’t supposed to be

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Steve Simms

I can’t find the idea in Scripture that meetings of the body of Christ, need to be built around a sermon. If Christians spent more time reading the Bible with an open heart, we wouldn’t feel such a need to … Continue reading →

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Better than a sermon . . .

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Steve Simms

You don’t need to rely on secondhand info about Jesus. He’s talking to you directly. I don’t understand why many Christians prefer to hear a preacher instead of reading the Bible and hearing God’s direct voice. If you would listen … Continue reading →

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Heart-distancing isn’t healthy (a closed heart is a lonely place to live)

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Steve Simms

A closed heart is a lonely place to live. To share from the heart is to tell the truth with openness and vulnerability–to let the inner you come into view. Some people keep their heart closed to try to protect … Continue reading →

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Supernatural combo — the living Jesus & the Bible

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Steve Simms

Christ-followers are called to be led by the Spirit and surrendered to the rule (kingdom) of God. When Jesus is more than religions information and becomes within you, living animation, you experience supernatural transformation. Christians are called to live and … Continue reading →

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Christianity needs more “heartials” and fewer facials

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Steve Simms

Facials are fine, but what we all really need is heartials. When Christians gather with a “minister to me” attitude instead of a “let’s minister to one another” attitude, we miss much that God has for us. Perhaps a group … Continue reading →

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