by Dr Delron Shirley | Jul 21, 2013 | Meditations
Just as I had discovered that there were three keys in David’s approach to challenging the giant and that there were three aspects to each of these keys, the committee developing the discipleship program understood that there was also a three-pronged approach to...
by Dr Delron Shirley | May 21, 2013 | Meditations
Now, let’s go back to the discussion I was having with God over the Great Commission passage in Matthew’s gospel. Although I was very familiar with the King James Version’s rendering, to “teach all nations,” I was also aware that most modern translations use the...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Apr 21, 2013 | Meditations
In Matthew chapter twenty-eight, Jesus appeared to the eleven on a mountainside in the Galilee area. There, He gave them a little different perspective on His Commission—discipleship. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Mar 21, 2013 | Meditations
The next point I see in the story of Nineveh is the missed opportunity to shepherd the new converts. As best as we can tell, Jonah did nothing to follow up on the great revival in Nineveh. It was likely the greatest missed opportunity in all of human history; yet...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Feb 21, 2013 | Meditations
The Apostle does not place all the credit for the effectiveness of his ministry on signs and wonders alone. In I Thessalonians 1:5, Paul makes one simple statement that reveals five distinct elements in his approach to winning a city—five keys to a city, if you wish...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Dec 21, 2012 | Meditations
When John the Beloved recorded the Great Commission, he remembered the words of Jesus stating that He was sending the church into the world in the same way that the Father sent Him. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were...
