2019 – Page 3 – Another Coffee Break

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Healing for the Soul & Spirit, Part 3

Obviously, the Holy Spirit is keeping us in the midst of this study and propelling us to the place where we have no soul wounds of any kind – and nothing whatever left within of memories which continue to stab at us internally. There is a phrase which Mark used in his Gospel quoting from something Jesus said which is about as picturesque as you can get when you start talking about the wounded soul, the rending of the soul or dealing with the fragmented soul.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-29T09:55:04+00:00September 20th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Healing for the Soul & Spirit, Part 2

We continue on with last week’s discussion, but this time taking a different approach and considering a different aspect of healing for those who’ve been wounded in soul and spirit. We’ll start once again with Isaiah’s prophecy – the same place where Jesus started His ministry – as we take up our study with the wounded soul and the wounded spirit and see how each area affects the other.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-29T09:49:16+00:00September 13th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Healing for the Soul & Spirit, Part 1

This is a topic I have mostly avoided for the past 20-plus years, ever since I first heard it discussed. I’ve heard about “soul fragments” for years, but never really considered the Scriptural foundations for this area of teaching – and in fact thought folks who ministered in this area had really gone overboard, stretching the Word into an area that didn’t really exist. This is an area of understanding where I have had some blinders on – and thankfully the Holy Spirit has opened my eyes.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-29T09:39:49+00:00September 6th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Mathematical Metaphors, Part 3

OK. Thought I was going to finish up this thing on math last week, but I can't help it. I get started with this stuff and can't stop. I love the parallels in Scripture. Math and mathematical principles abound in the Word of God. God is very precise in everything that He does, and we govern our lives according to that precision.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-22T11:17:21+00:00August 30th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Mathematical Metaphors, Part 2

Continuing where we left off last week, we consider the number 12 in the picture of the Bride of Christ -- the number of Ekklesia, the number of preparation, and the number of governmental authority. Last week, we said that the New Jerusalem does not only consist of Jews. Representing the call to, and gathering from, the nations are the twelve foundation stones, and on them the names of the twelve apostles who made up that first Ekklesia.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-22T11:13:13+00:00August 23rd, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Mathematical Metaphors, Part 1

Throughout Scripture, we see numbers repeated again and again and again. What most folks miss is that these numbers are metaphors in Hebrew with pictures that go well beyond the surface. When John wrote, “And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband,” the angel of the Lord was showing him the same thing that Ezekiel had seen in a vision. It was not a city in the sense of a physical or geographical place; it was the ensample of a principle: a principle which strikes at the very heart of all that the Lord has been doing in our midst.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-19T09:24:36+00:00August 16th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Tribulation, Part 5

Let’s see if we can wrap us this series today and talk about the blessing of tribulation. Can’t think of anyone I’ve ever talked to over the years who suggested that tribulation was an absolute blessing, but it is. No affliction, no trial, no false accusation, no trouble of any kind seems to be joyful at the moment you are going through it, and when all hell breaks loose around you, you often look for a hole so you can crawl into it and hide. Doesn’t seem to work that way, does it?

By Regner Capener|2019-08-19T09:25:09+00:00August 9th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Tribulation, Part 4

It has been a pleasure, thus far, to see the responses of readers who’ve taken this series to heart – especially those who’ve been through a lot, not really understanding what it is all about. So many folks have been programmed with the religious mentality of the so-called “Great Tribulation,” believing that it is something the Lord is going to snatch them out of so they don’t have to suffer.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-19T09:25:49+00:00August 2nd, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Tribulation, Part 3

I ran out of time last week to finish the story of 13-year-old Rosa Frankson, who endured persecution, beatings and torture for the sake of the Gospel. I’m getting ahead of myself in saying so, but her life and her testimony affected the whole community of Point Hope, Alaska. After three or four days of hanging between life and death, and fading in and out of consciousness, she was awake and talking to the attending nurse. "You need to know Jesus like I do," she said. The nurse teared up, and not knowing what else to do or say, reached over and patted Rosa on the head. "You're going to be OK, Rosa."

By Regner Capener|2019-08-19T09:28:48+00:00July 26th, 2019|

ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: Tribulation, Part 2

For reasons that are perfectly understandable when you realize how much we have been contaminated with the culture and mindset of death, God’s people want to be “raptured” out of here to escape all those things that Paul experienced for the sake of the Gospel. I want to begin today with a story of a young woman who experienced much of what we have just read in II Corinthians. Her name is Diana H. Hopefully, we will be able to have her share her experiences in person, but for today, let me give you a very brief overview of her life.

By Regner Capener|2019-08-19T09:29:26+00:00July 19th, 2019|