“…lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us...” Hebrews 12:1.
I love mountains. I love looking at them, being near them, and climbing on them. My feet have trod the Wrangell Mountains in Alaska, the Alps in Austria, the Great Smokies in Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, the Catskills and Adirondacks in New York, numerous other lesser known ranges but most recently, the Spring Mountains in southern Nevada.
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“Do not move the ancient boundary which your fathers have set” Proverbs 22:28.
Most of you are probably familiar with this Old Testament Scripture. There are six others like it and they all deal mainly with topographical boundaries, usually piles of rocks, that were used to mark a property boundary.
But there’s more to it. These property boundaries connected the property owner to the very covenant God made with His people to give them a homeland. But...
“And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch” Acts 11:25-26.
Things were happening at Antioch. The word on the street was God was moving among the Gentiles and scores were being saved. When this news reached the church leaders in Jerusalem, they launched Barnabas to Antioch to investigate.
Upon arrival, Barnabas learned that these things were true. His first move was to leave Antioch and travel to Tarsus to...
Let’s role play for a moment. Let’s say you are a preacher and you are asked to go to a particular city to a particular people that, well, your peers are reluctant to go to. But you go and God moves in a big way. Hundreds are saved and you begin to go from city to city in this region preaching to crowds and seeing God move in more wonderful ways.
Then, the invitation comes for you to travel a considerable distance away from these cities, in fact to an inhospitable place in the...
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