Pastors, I want to ask you a serious question. Indeed, I believe the Holy Spirit wants me to ask you this. Are you a shepherd or a cowboy? What’s the difference? One very simple difference is this; shepherds lead, cowboys drive. The old Rawhide TV theme song pretty much expresses the cowboy mentality of many who call themselves pastors.

“Keep movin’, movin’, movin’, though they’re disapprovin’, Keep them dogies movin’, rawhide.
No need to understand them. Just rope ‘em, throw, and brand ‘em. Soon we’ll be livin’ high and wide.” [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

I find myself saying it all the time. When people hear it they laugh at me, but actually I’m quite serious when I say it. Here it is: No one is more influential in your life than you are, because no one talks to you more than you do. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

Pride was the first sin to destroy the calm of eternity. It was pride that cast Lucifer from heaven and it was pride that cost our first parents their place in Paradise. Pride is the first sin to enter a mans heart and the last to leave. No sin is more offensive to God than the sin of pride. Pride has been referred to as the “complete anti-God state of mind.” It militates against God’s authority, God’s law, and God’s rule. This is why the Bible equates rebellion with witchcraft (1 Sam.15:23). Pride assaults God’s throne and asserts its independence in an attempt to dislodge God as the Sovereign of the universe. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

I have no respect for justice.
I maim without killing.
I break hearts and ruin lives.
I am cruel and malicious
And gather strength with age.
The more I am quoted,
the more I am believed. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

God spoke to me this afternoon (4-10-13). He said he is tired of people trying to destroy the local assemblies that are preaching the true word of God, and that He is going to start destroying them. This is the message that He gave to me to give to such people and to tell the church to stand up for itself because He is standing with you. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

“Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?’ So Satan answered the Lord and said, ‘Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” Job 1:8-11 [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

During the night of Feb. 22nd, an angel came to me and took me to heaven. He told me to be very quiet. First we went to look into hell. There I saw the demons making preparations for a huge party. Then we went to God’s court room where I witnessed Satan talking to God the Father. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

It’s ironic that the first promise of a Savior was actually addressed to the devil. Now certainly, Adam and Eve were there to hear it, and God offered this promise for their benefit, but that first promise of a Savior was actually spoken to the devil. You see, Satan had just succeeded in leading Adam and Eve astray. He had tempted them to eat fruit from the three which God had declared off limits to them. As a result, Adam and Eve fell into sin. That first sin resulted in horrible consequences for Adam and Eve and for all of their descendants, including you and me today. Indeed, it corrupted our entire world. [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

“For the kingdom of heaven is a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to every man according to his several ability; then he that had received five talents went and with the same, and made five other talents. And likewise he that received two, he also had gained another two. But he that received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.” Matthew 25:14-18 [Read more…]

By Daniel Yoder

Philippians 3:1-14

The apostle Paul like many of us was searching for what God had planned for him or laid out for him in his life. He knew and said, “I have not arrived yet!” But he did say, “This one thing I do . . . “ One thing I know, there is one thing God has shown me over and over again. There is one thing, one truth to get through our thick skulls! And that is that WE ARE TO FORGET THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND US, AND NEVER DWELL ON THEM AGAIN, EVER! [Read more…]