Tag Archives: presence

Of Human Bondage — Judgment, Tolerance, Or Salvation?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

We boast of freedom in a life of limits. As humans we live in the ever present bondage of boundaries. Nothing in our lives is unlimited. We can only climb so high, reach so far, run so fast, think so long, enjoy … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Berry Street Worship Center, boundaries, church history, history, Holy Spirit, house church, Jesus Christ, kingdom of God, life, lifestyles, meaning, mysticism, Nashville, Oh my God, organic church, positive thinking, Quotes, religion, salvation, simple church, social justice, The Salvation Army, thinking, What is church?, William Booth | Tagged 000, 18802, 2, a third option, about, acceptance, accepting, accusing words, addictive, amazing, and/or, army, attempting to justify, attitudes, begin, behaviors, being rescued from, being set free, blame, blaming others, boldly, bondage, boundaries, Bramwell Booth, but in deed and in truth, cause and effect, climb so high, consequences, create, crossed out the word, culture, daily, decades, denial, destructive, devasting, discussing, disguise the pain, do, don't know when, dull, duration, East London, efforts, embraces, enjoy, ever preent, expiration date, fast, fatalism, father, flyer, forgotten concept, freedom, get free, guilt, harmful, held hostage, held in bondage, Here I am to save the day, how do we deal with, human thoughts, humans, I am a regular, I was born this way, in an effort, in the mean time, Jesus Christ, judgment, judgmental, jusdge us, life, life choices, life's limits, limits, live, lives, living, long, meet, mighty power, millions, movement, news media, not in words only, nothing at all, nowadays, opening, other parts of England, others, ourselves, pain producing, passively, pen, people, perhaps, perishable products, physical existence, pie-in-the-sky, practical, presence, pretend, price we pay, prison doors, proclaim, proclamation, raging fire, reach so far, read, real freedom, rediscover, religious platitudes, resurrected, run, said, salvation, say, so many ears, social work, spread around the world, surrender, talk, that's just the way I am, the end is coming, The Salvation Army, the things that, the way we live, think, though out, three ways, time, to promote a meeting, tolerance, unlimited, verbally, volunteer, We are a salvation army, We are a volunteer army, we boast, who can say, William, William Booth, working, world, written | 6 Comments

Can A Church Be Full Of The Glory Of God?

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Steve Simms

A popular worship song says: “The splendor of the King; clothed in majesty . . .” It is great to sing about God’s splendor, but how do we bring it forth? There is a simple, but powerful answer to this … Continue reading →

Posted in church history, God, house church, Jesus Christ, music, Nashville, Oh my God, organic church, prayer, religion, simple church, What is church? | Tagged among, awe, baton, Berry Street, Bible, blends, bring it, called, chaos, Christ's body, church, clothed in majesty, conductor, contributions, directory, do, do their own thing, experience, expressions, forth, gathered, gifted, giving, glorious, glory of God, God, God's splendor, great, hear, heart-felt, hearts, holy, Holy Spirit, house church, I Corinthians 14:26, indescribable, instructions, leading, leadings, member, men, morning, move, musicians, Nashville, obeys, open, option, orchestra, organic church, people, perform, place, popular, powerful, prayer, presence, responds, revelation, seek, shares, shines, silence, simple, simple church, sing, spiritually hungry, splendor of the King, stand, standing on holy ground, Sunday, symphony, talented, taps, taste and see, testmony, The Salvation Army, verse, women, word of knowledge, worship song | Leave a comment

Respond To The Spirit Like A Windmill

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Steve Simms

The wind of the Spirit is blowing, but the church is stripped and locked down like the blades of a windmill. It refuses to move in response to the Holy Spirit, preferring the rigidity of religion instead of the roaring … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, freedom, God, Holy Spirit, house church, kingdom of God, life, lifestyles, Michigan, mysticism, new birth, organic church, pentecostals, prayer, windmill | Tagged about us, apply, attentive, bird, blades, born of the Spirit, break, city park, clothe, clothed with humility, covered, direct, disobeying, Dutch, face the wind, fear, focus on, frame, graceful, Holland, Holy Spirit, impict, intentionally, Jesus, like the wind, listen to, live, Michigan, move, name De Zwaan, neglect, New Testament, obey, out of the box, powerful, presence, principles, Quench not the Spirit, refuse, reminded, resisting the Spirit, respond, rotated, sales, Scripture, seek, soaring, speak to me, teaching, the Netherlands, the Spirit, The wind blows, tradition, turn, unlocked, walking through the park, what people will think, windmill, Windmill Island, yesterday, yield, you hear its sound | 2 Comments

Things That Stir My Soul

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

Here are some things that stir my soul to sense the spiritual reality that surrounds us — that create a sense of awe in my heart. These things motivate me, inspire me, and help me be aware of the reality … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Bible, biography, books, Civil Rights, Creator, God, history, life, lifestyles, music, mysticism, organic church, prayer, Quotations, Quotes, self-help, social justice, Uncategorized | Tagged Amazing Grace, aware, awe, beauty, Bible, biographies, books, breakthroughs, Brother Sun, children, Christian, classics, collecting, common, concerns, conserns, create, creativity, etc., experience, expressing, favorite, flowers, focusing on, Gandhi, getting, God, growth, heart, help, helping somebody, hills, His, his/her, history, holding a baby, Holy Spirit, in my heart, inspirational, inspire, interacting, It's A Wonderful Life, Jr., Les Miserables, lives, manifest, Martin Luther King, meeting, message, mind, motivate, move, movies, music, nature, needs, observing, ocean, of others, openly, partcipating, passionately, people, personal, Philokalia, presence, publicly, quotations, quotes, rainbow, reading, reality, revivals, sense, share, Shenandoah, Sister Moon, small, social justice, songs, speeches, spiritual, spirituality, squirrels, stary sky, stir my soul, stories, story, sunset, surrounded by, surrounds us, take over, the, The Arthur Blessett Story, The Cross, things, To Dream The Impossible Cream, uplifting, watching, What God is doing, William Wilberforce, within me, woods, worship, writing | 2 Comments

God’s Watergate — Rivers Of Living Water

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

God’s watergate has nothing to do with the scandal that brought down President Nixon. God’s watergate is in the human heart and when opened allows the living water of the Holy Spirit to flow from deep inside a person. Jesus said: … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Bible, Creator, house church, Jesus Christ, kingdom of God, life, lifestyles, mysticism, new birth, Oh my God, organic church, prayer, Quotations, Quotes, religion, What is church? | Tagged a person, A.J. Gordon, Abraham Isaac, absolutely, abundance, allows, around you, be, believers, bless the world, brought down, burst, can, cannot, claim, contained, current, deep inside, desert, dissipate, drained, dry places, enable, energy, enlightenment, Esther Burroughs, evidence, faithfulness, feeding people, filled to overflowing, filled with the Spirit, forcefully, forth, fountain, fruitful, Give, God's, good, goodness, He who believes in me, His Spirit, holy, Holy Spirit, hope, human heart, humanity, in the beginning, influence, inner, innermost being, irrigate the land, Jesus said, Jim Feeny, John Watson, joy, keep, Kook, let, let it flow, life, life-giving, living water, Michelle McKinney Hammond, ocean, open, opened, Oswald Chambers, outflow, patience, person, pouring out, pours, power, presence, President Nixon, quotations, receive, refill, relations, relationship, released, revival, right, river of life, rivers of living water, Roy Hession, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Samuel Logan Brengle, Sarah Hornsby, satisfy, says, Scripture, shoot up, souls, spiritual, streams, strive, strong, submerged, take control, things, through you, to flow, today, touch of God, unleash, vessel, waiting, walks in the Spirit, watergate, wells up, will flow | 2 Comments

A Man Made Over By Miracles

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Steve Simms

Keith Easley’s full blooded Cherokee grandmother taught him to love God and she prayed for him always. However, Keith, like most of us, had his own ideas. He wound up addicted to drugs and holding a leadership position in … Continue reading →

Posted in biography, freedom, God, house church, Jesus Christ, lifestyles, mysticism, Oh my God, organic church, popular culture, prayer, prayer walking, religion, The Salvation Army, Uncategorized, What is church? | Tagged addicted to, amazed, associates, Berry Street Worship Center, bullet, changing people's lives, Cherokee, Christ, church, completely, crying, dependent, died, doctors, dream, drugs, emergency room, experienced, face, five, flat lined, free, freedom in the Spirit, full blooded, gang, go inside, God, God is working, grandmother, head, heart-felt testimonies, ideas, Jesus, Keith Easley, leaderhsip, leave, left, lives, love, message, metal plates, miracle, moment, nothing else, November, offered, position, powerful, prayed, prayer, presence, real, rebulit, received, reconstructive surgery, severe pain, shared, shot, side, sing, soldier, spiritual leader, storng, story, summer, surgeries, The Salvation Army, thought, throat, unable, wife, woke up | 4 Comments

The Holy Spirit Is Not Theory Or Theology

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Steve Simms

The Person of the Holy Spirit does not present Himself as a theory or as a theology but as a flow in your heart. Speaking of the Spirit, Jesus said: “Out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Creator, God, lifestyles, Nashville, organic church, Quotations, Quotes, religion | Tagged 10:45, 225 Berry St., 37207, allow, awe, believers get together, Berry Street, breaks forth, church, commanded, direct you, do what, don't hinder, experience, flow in your heart, gathering, God, grow, hold back, Holy Spirit's, how far we can go, in the New Testament, in their midst, Jesus, Nashville, never know, nowadays, organic church, Out of your innermost being, person of, power, presence, presents himself, program, Quench not the Spirit, rivers of living water, said, shall flow, Spirit's flow, spiritual life, stand in, Sunday morning, the blooming of a desert, the Holy Spirit, The Salvation Army, theology, theory, Worship Center | 3 Comments

9 Reasons I’m Convinced That Jesus Christ Is Alive And Present In Our World

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Steve Simms

I am convinced that Jesus Christ literally came back to life (what is called the resurrection) and walked out of His tomb. I haven’t always believed that. In high school I realized that I had no personal evidence to support a … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Creator, God, history, lifestyles, organic church, religion | Tagged 000 years, 2, accepted, alcoholics, amazing awareness, answer prayers, arrested under Saddam, avid reader, Baghdad, Bible, burns in my heart, came back to life, church history, claim, coincidence, college, cultures, direct, drug addicts, emotional, encounter, financial break throughs, flow of words, freshman year, God, guard, high school, imprisoned, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jesus rose, Jewish, Jordanian border, languages, lead, meet Him, meeting, Messiah, miraculous rescues, Muslim, Nashville, New Testament, no personal eveidence, no program, objective reality, organic church, physical healings, presence, prison, raped, released, resurrected, set free, speaking in tongues, subjective, testimonies, the Holocaust, the resurrection, time periods, to support, tortured, transformed, walked out of His tomb | 89 Comments

The Power Of Fasting

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Steve Simms

Fasting is going without food in order to focus on seeking God through prayer. Spiritual power is released through fasting. Jesus said that some deliverance only comes “by prayer and fasting.” Fasting is the active and intentional denial of our body’s desire for food. … Continue reading →

Posted in apologists, Creator, God, Nashville, organic church, religion | Tagged 37207, Bible, body's desire, burn in your heart, day, deliverance, denial, desperate, everyone is welcome, fasting, fervent, focus, gives grace to, going without food, hosting, human limitations, humbles us, humbling us, hunger and thirst, Jesus, Nashville, naturally, passion, physical hunger, power, pray, prayer, presence, released, resist the proud, righteousness, Scripture, seeking God, spiritual power, The Salvation Army Berry Street Worship Center, they shall be filled | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: presence

Can A Church Be Full Of The Glory Of God?

Respond To The Spirit Like A Windmill

God’s Watergate — Rivers Of Living Water

A Man Made Over By Miracles

The Holy Spirit Is Not Theory Or Theology

9 Reasons I’m Convinced That Jesus Christ Is Alive And Present In Our World

The Power Of Fasting

These elephants want to inspire you! Search Amazon for: Elephants INspiring The Room.

Email Subscription

Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible

Top Posts & Pages

Recent Posts

Archives