Defending Your Field of Lentils

Without application doctrines can become mere philosophies, but without doctrine applications often becomes purposeless. From his unique standpoint as an IBLP alumnus and a pastor, Joe Norvell tries to bring clarity to the way doctrines and principles work together.

"He walks with me and He talks with me, and He tells me I am His own; and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known." In 1993 Joe Norvell was searching for what it meant to pursue the presence of God. What he found stayed with him.

Very few have come to Christ only by reading the Bible. For most, God used other people, such as our parents or a pastor, to help us to understand the Bible and to trust what it says about salvation.

What does the field of lentils represent? What is the cause for which we as fathers can stand and fight? Obviously, the answers are many. However, as a pastor, Joe Norvell, can see that out of all the battles that rage today there are some specific areas of vulnerability in the church at large.