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For a holy high–walk in the light!

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Steve Simms

To walk in the light is to be honest, real, and vulnerable. It is to take off our masks; to come out of hiding, and to let people see what’s really going on in our hearts. It is to open … Continue reading →

Posted in 1 John 1:7, alienation, confess your sins, getting high on Jesus, grace, guilt, James 5:16, mercy, Nashville, organic church, Salvation Army, small groups | Tagged church, forgiveness, group therapy, healing, quotations, religion, walking in the light | 1 Comment

Humorous Thought About The Cold & Flu Season

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Steve Simms

A funny thought (about the cold and flu season) came to my mind as I was driving into work: “When you have a runny nose, does it jog your memory? Does it remind you that the living God wants to … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, faith, funny thought, health, health care, jog your memory, joke, make me laugh, religious innovation, rivers of living water, runny nose, sickness, Spirit-led, Spirit-prompted, spiritual flow | Tagged cold season, flu season, God, healing, humor, religion | Leave a comment

WIJD? What Is Jesus Doing?

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Steve Simms

WWJD? What would Jesus do is a good question. But here’s a better one: WIJD? What is Jesus doing in your life today? . . . talking to you? . . . guiding you? . . . changing you? . … Continue reading →

Posted in blessings, Christ, Christ-centered, Christian, Christianity, clear conscience, compassion, conscience, conviction of sin, crying, deliverance, forgiveness, freedom, good question, hearing God, hearing Jesus, heart-felt love, holy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Movement, Jesus Take The Wheel, Lord, miracles, mysticism, presence of Christ, questions, religion, Savior, spiritual growth, tears, The Jesus Prayer, What would Jesus do?, WWJD? | Tagged forgiveness, healing, Jesus, miracles, pure and holy life, What is Jesus doing?, What would Jesus do?, WWJD? | 4 Comments

The Christmas Gift Most Commonly Left Unopened

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Steve Simms

Every year some Christmas gifts remain unopened. They are lost and/or forgotten in the holiday hustle, buried under discarded wrapping paper, accidentally tossed with the trash. So what is the most commonly unopened Christmas gift? You would think it would … Continue reading →

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A Call — Add Fuel To A Spiritual Fire In Nashville, Tennessee

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Steve Simms

Even a spiritual fire needs fuel. When a spiritual fire starts it needs a steady supply of fuel to keep burning and to keep growing. There is a spiritual fire in Nashville – hearts ablaze with excitement about Jesus. People … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, fire, freedom, fuel, God, Holy Spirit, house church, Jesus Christ, kingdom of God, life, lifestyles, mysticism, Nashville, Oh my God, organic church, prayer, religion, revelation, salvation, simple church, spiritual, What is church? | Tagged 10:45am, 1916, 1st Street, 225, 37207, ablaze, about, awakening, being, being a part, believers, Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, blow, burning, by, call, carried, Christ, city, come, deliverance, destroyed, disciple, disciples, East, encourage, excitement, fire, for yourself, fuel, Give, gloriously, God, grow, growing, harvest, healing, hearts, help, high, His, historical, homes, hungry, in, Jesus, laborers, lead, life-transforming, lives, living, location, Lord, marker, marks, mature, Nashville, needs, new, North, part, passionately, people, please, pray, producing, salvation, see it, send, spirit, spiritual, spread, stadium, started, starts, steady supply, Sundays, testifying, The Salvation Army, this, through out, Titans, to keep, together, we can, winds, with | 6 Comments

My Top Five Christian Groups (Churches) Of All Time

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Steve Simms

I am an avid church history reader. However, I don’t much enjoy the politics and religion of the institutional church. Instead I love reading about the living faith of Christians in the past and about spiritural movements when multitudes came to … Continue reading →

Posted in Anabaptists, ancient history, Bible, church history, God, history, house church, Jesus Christ, kingdom of God, lifestyles, mysticism, new birth, Oh my God, organic church, pentecostals, Quakers, The Salvation Army, Uncategorized, What is church? | Tagged 100 years, 12, 1906 Pentecostal experience, affluent, aggressive, Anabaptists, assembly, avid, awesome, back home, bar tunes, beat drums, believed, Bible, billion, boldly, book of Acts, buildings, Christ, Christian movements, Christians, church history, countries, doctrine, drunkards, evangelize, favorite, finanical support, First Century, five, folks, generations, great love, group, healing, history, home, I Corinthians 14, institutional church, invaded, lead a song, lifestyle, lived, living faith, love, marched, meetings, miracles, missionaries, moved, multitudes, name, New Testament, of the, official, on fire, on the streets, one-way ticket, open air, participate, past, Pentecostals, people, politics, poor, power of God, preachers, professional, prostitutes, Quakers, reader, religion, Roman Catholics, Salvationists, sea steamer, silently, Society of Friends, speak, speaking in tongues, spiritual movements, store front, tens of thousands, The Salvation Army, turned the world upside down, words, world, worship | 10 Comments

Some Ways To Experience Mysticism

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Steve Simms

A mystic is someone who experiences communication from and/or conscious awareness of God. Everyone has the potential for mysticism. In fact, God communicates with most people everyday. However, most of us discount or drown out His voice. We think it … Continue reading →

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Some Americans Suffered An Atrosity

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

I once stood in a small cemetery where a little known group of American hostages are buried. There are no tombstones, only a flat rock placed on each grave—no names to identify these Americans who suffered tremendous indignities and deprivations as … Continue reading →

Posted in black history, history, lifestyles, Nashville, popular culture, social justice, Uncategorized | Tagged abused, Afghanistan, against their will, American history, American hostages, American soil, and prayed, ask for forgiveness, atrosity, black, bought and sold, Brentwood, Brentwood High School, burried, Cambodia, cars whiz by, cemetary, constant humilation, countrymen, cruelty, crushed by, democracy, denominations, depravations, despair, fellow, flags, flat rock, forced, forced laborers, forgotten Americans, friend, german, graves, great evil, group, hard labor, have died, healing, history, homeland, hopelessness, human beings, idea, identify, in front of a school, in the median, indignities, injustices, Iran, Iraq, Japan, knelt, Korea, Lebanon, lifetime, little known, men, my heart grieved, New York City, no flowers, no freedom, no names, no rights, notice, oxen, pain, paved around, prayers, proper burial, proper response, quietly, real people, religious, road builders, sanctioned by the US government, slavery, small wooded area, Syria, tears, Tennessee, tombstones, treated like horses, tremendous, unnamed, victims, Vietnam, white, widen the road, women and children, wooded | 5 Comments

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