Following Jesus isn’t just about abundant life, but how we are being transformed daily through spiritual maturity to be more like Jesus. By God’s grace and the work of the Holy Spirit, we are supplied with whatever we lack to get us where God wants us to be. In the book of Titus, Paul reminds…
5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.1 John 2:5-6 Tony Evans says, “Obedience rooted in love is the requirement for ongoing, developing, ever-deepening, fellowship with the Lord.” When we walk in His…
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” James 1:22 Technology seems to be taking over the world. I’m experiencing this first hand as we install a new computer to run our services. I used to be on the cutting edge. However, I feel like I’ve been pushed…
Like many Christ followers, I have a lot of Bibles. Most of them sit on my shelf next to all kinds of other books. However, the Bible is so much more different than those other books. Look what the Bible says: Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17 The words that…
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! Psalm 51:1-2 If you are like me, we have made some terrible decisions in our lives. I mean, some were probably harmless in the end – just teaching us never…
Hey Guys, We have been in a series studying the Word of God. As we begin our Wednesday Night series, 40 Days In The Word, I want to encourage y’all to make it a daily habit to get into God’s Word. This Sunday I will begin a series on the book of 1 Peter. As we look around our world today, it’s…
We are in a series from 1 Peter and we are looking at how God has called us to be different, to be holy. Jesus lived His earthly life interacting and ministering to the world – but He was definitely different! God has called us to do the same. We are to engage with the culture but live differently. Peter calls it…
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him…but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. 1 Samuel 30:6 Have you ever been distressed? Overwhelmed? Overcome? I can imagine that some of you are going through a season of rough seas even now. In those times it is hard to focus on much of anything…
My knowledge of Scripture is nowhere near exhaustive. In fact, the more I read and study, the more I realize that I need to read and study. How about you? How is your Bible reading/study going? Do you have a study Bible? By that, I mean do you have a Bible that you can mark…
We’re still in the section of Romans where Paul is convicting three different groups of their sin and their need for God. This week we looked at the religious group. The group that goes to church and outwardly does all the “right things.” However, Paul gets on to this group – specifically the Jews when he says, you then who teach others,…