Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples
Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples
Sermons on God (Page 10)
Jude, the brother of Jesus, encourages us to stand strong during these last days.
People massage their lineage by scrubbing some from the family tree (don’t mention great-grandfather that was the village idiot or other unsavory characters. Matthew, however, when listing the family tree of Jesus, doesn’t scrub clean or try to hide anything from the line. So, he begins with Abraham and recounts generation to generation of real…
God’s power is unlimited, and as Christians we know there is nothing too big or difficult for Him. Yet, when we call on God, pleading with Him to fix that thing that’s broken or hurting in our lives, we have a hard time believing our own prayers. But God knows our deepest needs, and when…
You see it every day. Bad people taking advantage of the weak. Good people down on their luck. Innocent people suffering. War. Injustice. Riots. Ever wonder where God is in the midst of all of this? Discover how an Old Testament prophet can inspire a modern-day faith in God’s Promises.
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Matthew 18:19-20 Holding a grudge, harboring bitterness – how do we move past our…
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months…
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.…
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.Galatians 2:20 The most important thing is the gospel of Jesus…
Paul spent three years – solitary time with God – studying and reflecting. We live in a time that puts too much emphasis on activity and accomplishment and not enough on reflection and contemplation. Paul then went to Jerusalem not for instruction but for accountability and unity. In today’s passage, Paul shows us that we…