Blog site of Pastor Phil Bickel

Will we stretch our faith to match God’s mammoth promises?  Or will we shrink His promises to fit our miniature faith?

July 16, 2020 0 By Phil Bickel

Feud or Faith?

Our world is rife with rifts. We know we ought to be kind to everyone, but families, communities, ethnic groups, and nations become divided by differences and injustices, envy and anger. Is resolution even possible? If there is a God, is He even paying attention? Surprisingly, a 4000 year old story addresses our modern conflicts.

May 26, 2020 0 By Phil Bickel

Present Day Disciples

Jesus Christ is still making disciples. In 1990, of the 100 million Bhojpuri in northern India, only 10,000 confessed faith in Christ. Today they number in the millions! Since then, the disciple-making principles that the Lord taught the Bhojpuris have spread to other parts of the globe. Why not your neighborhood too?

April 28, 2020 0 By Phil Bickel

Servitude or Freedom

A yoke is a wooden device which unites two animals so they can work in tandem. When Paul Simon sang, “I am a rock. I am an island,” he was expressing a lie people tell themselves. We all need to be connected, or yoked to someone or something, but will the relationship make us stronger? Jesus offers you a yoke that frees you.

April 17, 2020 0 By Phil Bickel

“I Have a Gift for You!”

I awoke Easter morning hearing: “Get up!  I have a gift for you!”  For a few weeks I had been reading 1 Corinthians 12-14.  Therefore, I guessed the Lord meant He was going to grant me one of the gifts of the Spirit mentioned there.  

I knelt and prayed with my palms open, waiting for the gift.  When nothing seemed to arrive, I asked God for a verse of guidance.  Jeremiah 7:14 surfaced in my mind.  So, I looked it up:

December 6, 2019 0 By Phil Bickel

Discover Who You Are

Are you ready to live to the max in 2020? You can, when you know who you are. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians reads like official adoption documents. So, don’t waste another year feeling like an orphan in the universe. Marvel at how God adopts you as His child.

November 14, 2019 0 By Phil Bickel

DBS in Your Church

An ocean liner can’t change course quickly. Neither can churches. For Discovery Bible Study to transform your church, start slowly and incrementally. Bit by bit, God will steer your ocean liner on a new course to make disciples who make disciples.

November 1, 2019 0 By Phil Bickel

Discovery Bible Study in Your Home

Because each generation is responsible to pass on the Gospel to their children, Christianity always stands just one generation from extinction. Over the last half century, Satan has attacked the family on many fronts. Could Discovery Bible Study bring victory in the battleground of your home? Yes, it could. Let’s take a brief tour of the features that distinguish DBS from typical family devotion methods.