April 13, 2026

Being REAL Together In Your Lives Together In Christ

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,

To download our latest Nugget, please click on The Communally Righteous Experience True Fellowship. In this Nugget we reinforce the importance of relational deference as the keystone to mutually upholding communal righteousness. It was communal righteousness anchored in relational deference which enabled our Lord Jesus’s earliest followers to be real as they experienced Sprit-enabled spiritual power and relational unity.

Today’s Genuine Must Be Real!

Consider these questions in light of you and your faith family being real with our Lord Jesus and living to serve His Father’s purposes as the Holy Spirit works in and through you individually and collectively:

•How many times in the last month has your faith community stopped and prayed for our president and for our Lord's wisdom to come upon him and his closest advisors? 

•How many times has your faith community gotten on their knees to pray for this nation and for the lives being impacted by its war with Iran? 

•Has your weekly service ever been stopped to call each person to examine their hearts and repent where needed, and only after that, then proceeding with worship?

•Why do you, your family, and your faith community gather each week for services? Is it for lifting up our Father to His glory in spirit and truth, and sharing testimonies of His wonderful intervention and answered prayer, and giving thanks to our Lord Jesus for His immeasurable love and glorious victory? Or do you come together for your own soulish satisfaction to sing familiar choruses and to hear pleasant sermons and exchange sociable pleasantries? 

It’s our fervent hope that these questions motivate the hearts of the genuinely born again because they cherish our Lord’s view of them: “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at My word” (Isaiah 66:2).

“[Our Lord Jesus] we proclaim, warning every person 

and teaching every person with all wisdom, 

that we may present every person fully mature in Christ” 

(Colossians 1:28).

Our determined hope in these Nuggets is to reinforce truths we’ve previously shared through writings and videos: Specifically, that you, your family and your fellowship family live according to the way our Lord Jesus has commanded and empowered His beloved. It is for divine purposes of loving and obedient service to Him as your Lord and King that you are called out of the world's system. Here are 4 ongoing biblical goals and objectives which our Father purposes for your fellowship family to fulfill out of grateful loving trust and holy deference: 

1. Your fellowship with others must spur you on to glorify our Father and our Lord Jesus through praise, worship, and a life of obedient trust that yields testimony of how He has worked in and around and through you by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

2. Your fellowship with one another should result in progressive growth in Christ-like character in each person which others can attest to.

3. Your fellowship family must enact out of love the corrective/confrontational means to help each other enter the narrow gate by repenting when you need to and receiving restoration.

4. Your fellowship family must strive to extend the Kingdom of God on earth—pursuing the lost so they too may by His grace enter the New Covenant with our Father and our Lord Jesus.

To fellowship without fulfilling each of these biblical criteria is a collective life of tolerating sin and self-will and compromise with the world rather than authentically loving God and doing His will. It’s a divine privilege and responsibility for each of you in your fellowship family to support one another in fulfilling all that our Lord requires of His own. This is the only and most effective way that you can mutually experience the New Covenant union in the indwelling Spirit of serving our Lord Jesus with heartfelt love: by a life that’s fully set on pleasing your heavenly Father.

Mike & Sue

March 31, 2026

Holiness Is A Transformational Process

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,

To download our latest Nugget, please click on Christlike Holiness Is An Imperative Character Quality. In this Nugget we discuss the biblical requirement to “be holy.” No one is born holy! Holiness is the result of the ongoing transforming work of the indwelling Spirit of our Lord. And holiness is a much deeper issue than you just trying to be a “good Christian”. The word holy means to be set apart and distinctly different, especially from the goals and attitudes and behaviors of the world’s ways of living. Being indwelled by the Holy Spirit identifies the genuine as “saints.” A saint is anyone in Christ who is set apart as holy for God’s use.

Holiness is a transformational process that is minimally emphasized in nominal Christianity. But if you are genuine in your love and obedient trust in our Lord Jesus, then holiness must exemplify your life because the Holy Spirit abides within you. And keep in mind that the Spirit’s transformational work in and through you as being set apart for our Father’s purposes gets the attention of a watching, unbelieving world around you. Out of your grateful love for our heavenly Father and Lord Jesus, may this Nugget revitalize your own pursuit of holiness.

Mike & Sue

PS We know that some of you spiritually struggle with the pagan traditions and rituals which have become infused into Easter over the centuries. Several years ago we addressed these practices as part of our series, Repentance Leads To Christ-like Character. If you’d like to learn more about the background of these pagan adaptations and how they’ve compromised the celebration of our Lord’s once-for-all-time sacrifice and resurrection victory, please read: The Sin of Belonging to Jesus While Also Serving the Queen of Heaven