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09
MAY
2025

Living in the Heavenly Realm

What might encourage us to explore what Paul was teaching about living in the heavenly realm? One reason this is a very important concept for us to experience is the benefit that comes to us in our lives as we follow Jesus.  Paul wrote to his friends in Ephesus (1:3) that God has...
19
FEB
2018

The Antioch Fellowship

The Antioch Fellowship For many years I have studied and pondered the things that made the fellowship that Jesus empowered in the first century so powerful and life-giving. The fellowship of believers in Antioch is one of the places these where we get a glimpse of these things...
13
OCT
2017

Companions on the Journey

  “Nietzsche responded, ‘At times I think I’m the most alone man in existence.  It has nothing to do with the presence of others – in fact, I hate others who rob me of my solitude and yet do not truly offer me company.’ “What do you mean, Friedrich?  How do they not offer...
08
AUG
2015

Partnerships at a Distance

Partnership at a Distance (a thought from Colossians) How do we stay connected to sisters and brothers in Christ at a distance?  As I look back over the past sixty years of having good companions in many other places of the world there are several things that have emerged as...
23
JUL
2013

Yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod

                  THE YEAST OF THE PHARISEES AND OF HEROD             In April Bob Hunter and I were in East Africa.  Each day we spent time studying the ideas of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.  One day we came across the statement of Jesus, “Watch out for the yeast of the...
22
JUL
2013

Reflections about a Core

Some thoughts about a Core               I wrote the following at the request of a friend in Canada who asked what my experience had taught me in praying for a province or a country.            That we will begin to see our country as Jesus sees it and we will engage in...
18
JUL
2013

Loyalty

LOYALTY – A reflection from 2 Timothy four                               The Apostle Paul sat in chains in a Roman prison praying that the small struggling fellowships scattered all over the Roman Empire might survive, grow and reproduce.  In the same way that Jesus left the...
17
AUG
1993

Jesus Christ in Every Culture

Acts 10:1-48 Many have observed that the message of Jesus Christ becomes limited in its appeal because we attach national, religious, theological and institutional cultures to the message of Jesus.  In truth the only thing we can properly communicate across these human barriers...

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About Kent Hotaling

Kent HotalingFor over 50 years I have been a follower of Jesus – some of the time in ways that pleased him and other times so poorly it neither pleased him, me, or others. However, I have stayed on the journey because…

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