For the month of August, I will be preaching at Eugene Vineyard Church every Sunday morning.  We're holding the services outside, under a large, spreading elm tree.  Here is the sermon from August 7.

Sorry that I took so long to get this post up.  However, as promised, here is a PDF of the notes I have taken on Daniel Chapter 2.  Those notes have been accumulating over several years.  I'm sharing them now because I've started working through the dreams and visions of the book of Daniel, seeking a deeper understanding of what the Lord showed him and what still remains to be fulfilled in our day.  Just a few minutes ago, before I started writing this post, I read through the PDF one more time.  I wanted to refresh my mind on their content before I started wri

I know a young couple who, a few years ago, lived in a housing co-op, full of duplexes, that was located in a rather pleasant spot on the edge of a mid-sized town.  They have since moved on, but they shared with us how, before they moved, there was a changeover taking place amongst the other residents of the co-op.  A number of new families had moved in and these new residents seemed to be quite unfriendly, even hostile, towards them.  Their children, in similar fashion, treated this couple’s seven-year-old badly out on the playground.  Besides being unfriendly, most of

I wrote in a previous post (post #6) how worship, our personal and individual worship centered on Him, must become a vital and essential part of our daily lives if we wish to go deep with God.  After reading my most recent post (post #7) that discussed practicing the presence of God as we go about our daily lives, do you see the connection between that and worship?  As you learn to practice......

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.             Acts 17:28

Paul the Apostle found himself at loose ends.  Forced to travel south from Macedonia because of heavy persecution, he landed in Athens.  He had left Timothy and Silas, his traveling companions and chief helpers, behind......

Well, it's live!  My third book, God Revealed: Finding God in the Marriage Relationship, is now available on both Amazon and Ingram Spark.  I put links to the Amazon listing and some samples below.  I haven't yet put the new book up on the website, www.johntreagan.com, but that will come sometime soon.  The book's theme is about how God has revealed Himself through the marriage relationship.  Every marriage is a mini-picture of how He deals with the church and with us as individuals.  We get to see Him and get

Elisha was grumpy.  He didn’t want to be there and he really didn’t want to be talking with the three foolish kings who had come to ask him to seek Yahweh on their behalf.  Yet here he was, having joined the marching armies of Israel because God’s Spirit had moved him to follow them.  Yet, one of those kings......

I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.

1 Corinthians 14:15

In my last post I challenged you to consider the question, how badly do you want God?  One cannot answer that question quickly so keep pondering on it for a while.  Sometimes I wonder if it might take a lifetime to find the real answer.  Here are some other topics I want to cover before we finish this series.  I have already mentioned the concept of praying in the spirit along with a promise to cover that topic.  The concept of praying in the spirit is very connected with the idea contained in Paul’s command to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess 5:17).  L

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you…
Jeremiah 29:12-14