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Browse > Home / Wade's Weekly Word / JDD – JESUS DEFICT DISORDER February 8, 2012 by wade   Filed under Wade's Weekly Word Colossians 1:28, “ Him we proclaim , warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. ”  In last week’s article, we used a quote from Len Sweet and Frank Viola in their book Jesus Manifesto and it bears repeating: “The crisis of the church today has little to do with dwindling numbers, aging... Read Full Story

Colossians 2:18-19, “Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.” Read Full Story

My wife Anne and I just returned from a short, but very encouraging and gratifying preaching and discipleship training conference. The meetings took place at Destino del Reino, a ministry started from the ground up by one of my former church members and spiritual daughters/disciples, Rhonda Jackson. From basically nothing but a vision, over the past nine years, she has overseen the building of a children’s home, where she is the house parent to 19 orphans, a K4 thru grade 7 school, with... Read Full Story

Among today’s most popular TV programs are two with similar titles: Extreme Home Makeover and just Extreme Makeover. One involves taking homely looking women and men and radically beautifying them by makeover and makeup experts. The other involves taking ugly houses and renovating and beautifying them by a team of experts. Read Full Story

In the movie, Shawshank Redemption, an old guy named Brooks was a well-liked and respected person in the inmate com­munity. He ran the library, loved books and people, and was no one’s enemy. A senior citizen of the prison populace, he had been in the Shawshank institution longer than anyone could remember. And he was about to be released. Read Full Story

We ask for your prayers as my wife, Anne and I (Wade) leave for Siguatepeque, Honduras on Friday, January 20. We will be with one of my spiritual daughters in the faith, Rhonda Jackson, at her mission station – Destino del Reino. Pray for traveling mercies, health, discernment as to preaching topics, fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit, good translators, and fruit for our labors. We will be preaching at various types of meetings, in some of the churches, as well as teaching a discipleship... Read Full Story

The brief, but revealing statement concerning Paul’s co-laborer, Demas, serves as a beckon of warning to us. It reminds us that it isn’t enough to start well, or to be intimately associated with and discipled by the greatest Christian that ever lived. In spite of all his spiritual progress and advantages, Demas became a spiritual dropout – a casualty of the world system’s fatal attraction! The lure of the world became so irresistible to Demas, that he abandoned both Paul and the ministry... Read Full Story

Someone well said that a New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other!  The reason this is true, for the most part, is because most good resolutions are simply personal checks that men draw on the Bank of Self where the account reads, “This check is invalid due to insufficient funds.” Read Full Story

In his excellent book Death by Suburb , David Goetz tells about the theory of a biologist who majors on the study of deer and elk that created a lot of debate among other biologists by setting forth the theory of the “shirker bull.” Read Full Story

If you asked the average person on the street to list the first words that come to their mind when “Christmas” is mentioned, the consensus would probably be, “givers and gifts — getting them and finding a use for them, and giving them, and finding a way to pay for them!” Read Full Story