https://www.fishthemen.com what i've been thinkin' — fishthemen.com en-us https://www.fishthemen.com/post/17-1-both-teams/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/17-1-both-teams/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:11:45 +0000 An appendix: I was asked about the previous chapter’s claim that the gift of tongues can be heard and understood by all angels, both holy and unholy. I, too, had heard the lesson, “If you speak in tongues, only God knows what you’re saying and... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/17-hearing-thunder/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/17-hearing-thunder/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:20:58 +0000 I have found that many of the spiritual gifts are understood to be about the same as magic to the typical Christian, no matter their background or current beliefs. “God does something miraculous; we don’t understand how; it’s the power of God; it seems to... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/16-let-them-eat-cake-part-ii/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/16-let-them-eat-cake-part-ii/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:46:33 +0000 I quote Napoleon: “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Which version of us do you think the demons prefer? Returning to address that teaching we called out at the top of Part 1 : “You need to be more obedient to walk in... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/15-let-them-eat-cake-part-i/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/15-let-them-eat-cake-part-i/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:46:05 +0000 We are a bunch of rich, entitled kids. We don’t realize it; and we don’t act like it. But we should. I’ve been hearing a bunch lately about how your spiritual authority comes from obedience to this and that rule. “You have to walk a... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/14-we-re-so-fashionable/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/14-we-re-so-fashionable/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:16:20 +0000 Of the myriad of characters in the Bible, there’s one guy who gets farrrr more attention than you might say, "is due him." But the lesson to be learned from him is critical for us individually and for the church as a whole, so I'd... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/13-authority-deferred/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/13-authority-deferred/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:15:06 +0000 I have a single, simple point to make before we carry on together. I dunno how many of you have messed around with the Book of Jashar… but we’re gonna need it in a coming article. And we should probably be on the same page... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/12-the-family-business/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/12-the-family-business/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:23:29 +0000 Hello, brother. Hello, sister. Before we start on this one, I’d like to remember the fundamentals: That Jesus walked among us on a mission to accomplish five main goals: One, to demonstrate what happens when the kingdom of heaven interacts with the kingdom of the... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/11-in-n-out/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/11-in-n-out/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 06:50:13 +0000 I guess Saint Augustine said everyone knows what Time is until they’re asked to define it. When I heard that, I was naturally like, “Challenge accepted, sir.” I thought about the fact that “a second” is just a pair of markers used to measure. The... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/10-irrevocably-prophetic/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/10-irrevocably-prophetic/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:21:40 +0000 I have a great uncle Alan in Florence, Italy, who lays hands on people to heal them. But not the way like maybe you’re thinking: people come to his house and pay him a fee, and he sits them on a small wooden chair in... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/9-the-perfect-definition/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/9-the-perfect-definition/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:05:39 +0000 I was at this church in New York and the pastor was teaching a series on the beatitudes. Over a few weeks he covered the top of Matthew 5, sorta skimmed the middle and bottom, and then wanted to continue on to chapter 6 but... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/8-why-we-fight-part-iii/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/8-why-we-fight-part-iii/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:52:01 +0000 I purposefully named this trio of articles in homage to an episode of the Spielberg/Hanks series Band of Brothers , where American forces in WWII first encounter the Nazi concentration camps. They absorb the unspeakably inhuman state of the Jews and the horrifying nature of... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/7-why-we-fight-part-ii/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/7-why-we-fight-part-ii/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:50:06 +0000 For my next trick, I’m gonna summarize the entire arc of human history for us in a couple bullet points. Men were created by God to exercise dominion over Satan and his rebellious angels. They handed that dominion over to Satan in Eden, who then... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/6-why-we-fight-part-i/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/6-why-we-fight-part-i/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 02:54:43 +0000 The very first thing God gave to mankind in Genesis 1:26, back in the first generation when he created man in his image, was dominion . He gave them dominion and told them to subdue the earth with it, saying, “ Let us make man... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/5-faith-pockets/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/5-faith-pockets/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:51:58 +0000 This is a long one but, I think, worth it. I was listening to an interview where legendary psychologist Dr. Ellen Langer was describing an experiment where she got approval to inflict a group of people with a minor wound. [1] She then split the... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/4-take-it-by-force/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/4-take-it-by-force/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:57:10 +0000 Matthew 11:12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. Looking again at these three things Jesus told us to do, to bring the kingdom of heaven to people: Number... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/3-call-it-like-it-isn-t/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/3-call-it-like-it-isn-t/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:53:32 +0000 I’m paying a lot of careful attention to what Jesus did and said in the gospels and the book of Revelation because he’s the ideal model, wouldn’t you say? I’m interested in the details surrounding the way his disciples learned from him and copied him... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/2-we-fish-the-men/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/2-we-fish-the-men/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:32:05 +0000 The Lord has apparently made me attentive to details and also made me love pointing that attention to the Scriptures. In accord with that, I must emphasize this point: Every single word in Scripture was written by the Holy Spirit, speaking through men who knew... https://www.fishthemen.com/post/1-the-ambassador-and-the-badge/ https://www.fishthemen.com/post/1-the-ambassador-and-the-badge/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 18:42:16 +0000 Hi! In this season, the main topic I’ll be writing about is the authority that we have in Christ through God’s Son Jesus. I want to encourage you to understand how much authority we’ve been given, how to believe it, and how to make use...