Teachings & Devotionals
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35 teachings
The first of a series drawn from David Pawson's teaching on Revelation. Some Christians avoid the book and others become fascinated with charts. Pawson argued that neither response reflects why God gave it.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·6 min read
ReadA description of the 1923 volume that combines spiritual autobiography, revival chronicle, and sermon collection, and states the thesis of early Pentecostalism in three words taken from Acts 2.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·7 min read
ReadNathaniel Van Cleave's 1992 history is the closest thing Foursquare has to an official narrative of its formative decades. Here is what it covers, what it does well, and where a reader should read with care.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·6 min read
ReadA popular teaching says logos means the written Bible and rhema means a personal word spoken to you. It is a useful devotional picture, but it is not what the New Testament vocabulary actually requires.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·7 min read
ReadThe same Greek root stands behind righteousness, righteous, and justify. Paul and James both reach for that family of words, and they use it to answer two different questions.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·7 min read
ReadAimee Semple McPherson and the first generation of Quakers are closer than they look. Both believed apostolic Christianity could be recovered. They disagreed about how you would know when it had been.
Clark Pickett·August 1, 2026·7 min read
ReadContinuing the Friends history series: William Penn's royal charter, his Frame of Government, his dealings over land, and the biblical convictions behind the Holy Experiment.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·8 min read
ReadContinuing a series on Friends history: William Penn as George Fox's trusted friend and fellow laborer, and the sweeping Preface in which he explained Fox to the world.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadContinuing the series on Friends history: the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Disaster Service, and two complementary ways Quakers have answered the call to love a neighbor.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadAn article in the Friends history series: how twelve Quakers answered a suspicious king in 1660, what their declaration actually said, and why it still echoes.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadContinuing a series on Friends history: Robert Barclay, the young Scot who sailed with George Fox, pleaded the Quaker case before kings and ambassadors, and wrote the Apology.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadContinuing a series on Friends history: William Penn wrote No Cross, No Crown in prison, arguing that no crown of glory comes without the daily cross of obedience.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadFrom the Friends history series: Elizabeth Fry's conversion at Norwich, her work among the women of Newgate, her influence abroad, and an honest weighing of what she accomplished.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·8 min read
ReadOur series on Friends history steps into the twentieth century with D. Elton Trueblood: philosopher, teacher, prolific author, and a Friend respected across every branch of the Society.
Clark Pickett·July 16, 2026·7 min read
ReadA reflective essay in the Friends history series: the Society's remarkable record of social reform, and how a Christian can weigh the achievements and the hard questions with both honesty and grace.
Clark Pickett·July 15, 2026·7 min read
ReadA survey of the Greek word family behind our English word righteousness, the five distinct senses that emerged from reading all 86 occurrences, and why the closer I looked, the less willing I was to force every verse into a single category.
Clark Pickett·July 15, 2026·9 min read
ReadThe third article in a series on Friends history: the quiet New Jersey tailor whose lifelong appeal to conscience helped lead the Quakers, and eventually the wider world, away from slavery.
Clark Pickett·July 15, 2026·7 min read
ReadThe second article in a series on Friends history: Margaret Fell Fox's conversion at Swarthmoor Hall, her leadership of the early movement, her ten years in prison, and her marriage to George Fox.
Clark Pickett·July 8, 2026·6 min read
ReadJames calls us to lay aside sin, humbly receive the word God has planted in us, and then do it, because the Word was never meant to be information only.
Clark Pickett·July 7, 2026·6 min read
ReadThe first article in a series on Friends history: George Fox's life and ministry, the movement he founded, and where the nickname Quaker actually came from.
Clark Pickett·July 7, 2026·6 min read
ReadBefore David was a king, he was overlooked, mocked, and hunted. The road to being called a man after God's own heart ran straight through rejection, met every time with a righteous response.
Clark Pickett·June 24, 2026·4 min read
ReadMoses hid his face at the burning bush. Yet the Angel of the Lord made a way for a man to meet God and live, and Isaiah promises a God who answers before we even call.
Clark Pickett·June 24, 2026·4 min read
ReadWe teach that context is everything. So what do we make of the apostles, who sometimes lift an Old Testament verse beyond its first meaning and use it rightly anyway?
Clark Pickett·June 24, 2026·4 min read
ReadWhen you do not know what to do, James points you to a generous God who gives wisdom freely, and to a wisdom that looks like peace and mercy rather than ambition.
Clark Pickett·June 18, 2026·5 min read
ReadRead James slowly and you keep hearing two older voices: the wisdom of the Old Testament and the words of Jesus on the mountain.
Clark Pickett·June 18, 2026·6 min read
ReadThree New Testament letters, written by different hands to different people, that together show us how to understand, live in, and continue in our salvation.
Clark Pickett·June 18, 2026·6 min read
ReadBefore we read a single command in James, it helps to meet the man who wrote it and the scattered people he was writing to.
Clark Pickett·June 18, 2026·5 min read
ReadJames asks us to count trials as joy, to stop blaming God for what we want, and to guard the heart where temptation really begins.
Clark Pickett·June 18, 2026·6 min read
ReadTwo colored pencils, a rainbow of markers, and one rule that changes everything: context. A simple, practical place to begin reading the Bible.
Clark & Kathy Pickett·June 17, 2026·3 min read
ReadIt is easy to settle for a small gospel. Ephesians 2 calls us into one that begins in death, moves through resurrection, and ends with God dwelling among his people.
Clark Pickett·June 17, 2026·5 min read
ReadEveryone is walking under some influence. The only question is which one is shaping your walk.
Clark Pickett·June 17, 2026·4 min read
ReadJesus does not ask us to work harder for him. In John 15 he invites us into something deeper: to remain in him, the way a branch remains in the vine.
Clark Pickett·June 15, 2026·2 min read
ReadBiblical fear is not terror that drives us away from God. It is reverent awe that draws us near and makes us wise.
Clark Pickett·June 8, 2026·2 min read
ReadThe Bible is a library of sixty-six books, but it tells a single story. Learning to read it that way changes everything.
Clark Pickett·May 28, 2026·2 min read
ReadGod uses the ordinary work of staying, forgiving, and serving to grow two people into the likeness of Christ.
Clark & Kathy Pickett·May 20, 2026·2 min read
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