No Exceptions Ministries, Inc

Mankind has an obnoxious habit of see-sawing from one extreme to another, detouring entirely from the balance and equilibrium of healthy perception.  While there are many examples of this, perhaps none is so obvious as it relates to giving.   There is no single doctrine I hate quite so much as tithing.  Given the cornucopia of foolishness that infiltrated the western church, I can feel your incredulity as you read that last sentence; but it’s true!  What makes tithing so malicious is that it interjects the utterly false premise that there are parts of the Law we are to retain amidst Grace and other parts we are to omit.  That opens wide the door of misinterpretation wherein we weigh and judge each and every old covenant rule against the measuring stick of Jesus.  Interestingly, He never asks us to do that!  His fulfillment of the Law did away with the entirely ineffective, impersonal, separation-causing system birthed from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.   In its place we h

Because God IS Love, each time He releases love to the creation, He is giving a part of Himself, dispensing a portion of His very essence and nature.  In this manner, divine love is first and foremost a sacrificial act.  So then, as miraculous and wondrous as the death of Jesus Christ is, it can be perceived as a type and shadow of a still bigger picture: that every moment of every day - indeed, every moment before there were moments and every day before there even were days - with each act of love, Love sacrifices Himself anew, breaking off a piece of Himself, and sowing it to you and I, literally investing Himself to us by which right we are then called His BODY.   The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world.  While that is a fully accomplished act from which I desire to rob not one ounce of glory, we nonetheless experience the continuation of that same selfless love with each breath we draw.  And perhaps most mesmerizing, the supply from which He draws is limitless, knowin

I AM.   Not ‘I was’.  Not ‘I will be’.   But, I AM.  Father, Son, and Spirit are the ever-present-tense I AM.  Past, present, and future are terms only relevant to a temporal (chronos) world and He who fashioned that very world is distinct from it, existing first and foremost in kairos time.   Consider… - He was crucified ‘before the foundation of the world’.  Yes, that eternal, ever-present reality still had to be carried out in chronos time.  But because He is always ‘now’, spiritually speaking, there was never a time in which the Lamb wasn’t slain.   - His first miracle was to disregard the natural order of time (‘My time has not yet come.’) and operate out of the eternal realm where the time is always NOW.  Jesus’ chronos time had not yet come, but Christ’s kairos time was unaffected. [I am in no way attempting to separate Jesus from Christ.  They are one in the same.  What I am attempting to convey is the fullness of His humanity AND the fullness of His divinity.] Once God determi

Words matter.  Their definition, origin, tense of usage, and evolution over time all matter.  This is true of the words we read, write, and speak in our common language…as well as those we encounter in scripture.   The foundation of honest debate, occurring in good faith, is accurately using words.  You cannot simply redefine them to fit your narrative or superimpose your subjective interpretation onto the objective definition itself.  Whether you start your personal study process with definition (via study resources) or with interpretation (via the Spirit) is entirely your choice.   When done correctly, both roads lead to the same outcome: an application based on BOTH interpretation (subjective) and definition (objective).   But this doesn’t change the fact that words mean what they mean.  And for the purpose of academic debate, it is from that place of agreed-upon definition we can THEN discuss their application and correct interpretation.   Never pass off your interpretation as defi

When people are hurting, what they need from us is compassion birthed from unconditional Love…not a defense of God or a theological treatise justifying ‘why bad things happen’.  Listen to them.  Feel their pain with them.  And yes, encourage them!  But encourage from a position of Love, not the mistaken posture of the self-appointed apologist of the Divine.  The God who willingly, voluntarily, and completely relinquished Himself to the angry mob of our mistaken identity so as to appease our perceived need for blood is surely not so easily offended.  He does not need, nor want, our defense.  The Architect of all that is can take care of Himself without our help.  He prioritizes His nature (Love) above all else…and so should we.   Passages to Consider: Romans 8:32 (NASB95) He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?  Luke 9:51–56 (NASB95): 51 When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determi