How important is it to surround yourself with multitude of believers? It’s critical. You might as well say it is a life and death situation. Believers continually plant seeds of faith. Believers are truly concerned for each other and are there for each other. Believers continually life each other up. Image courtesy of: brjkt “Therefore
Too often we get mad at God because things are not going the way we would like, and because we think He is not answering our prayers. If we want God to answer our prayers, we have to be able to hear Him when He answers. Everything starts with having a right relationship with him.
As large ships driven by strong winds are steered by one very small rudder, so do our words steer our lives. The words that we speak are life changing. Are we going to speak words of faith, or doubt? Are we going to speak words of love, or words of hate? Are we going to
Faith and action work together. Like an apple tree, you can tell the tree apart from others by the apples that it produces. So it is and should be with Christians. You can and should be able to tell us apart by the fruit that we produce… by our works. Scripture: “As the body without
In today’s chosen scripture, James is talking about praying for wisdom. He says that we should pray for it because God gives it generously to those who ask for it. When we ask, we are to trust that God is going to give it to us. He will answer our questions. He will reveal solutions
We read about all kinds of miracles that Jesus performed in the Bible, either personally or through his followers. But does God still perform miracles? How is this at all relevant for us today? We are living in post-biblical times, right? Image courtesy of: tim ellis Scripture:“Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God
When we come to the Lord our God, we are coming to something that is far greater than we could ever imagine. We hear about God’s awesome power and glory, but today’s verse gives us some unique insight and perspective on what this is like. To follow are just a handful of the insights. Scripture:“But
This morning’s verse is from the “Hall of Faith” chapter in the Bible. There are many verses here, but fundamentally it is a great chapter to help us understand what faith in Christ is all about. The very first verse says, “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we
It’s always good to be reminded of, and to go back to, the basics. It is so to get caught up in all the complexity and the detail. And it is sometimes necessary. But we can get lost if we’re not careful. Further, we can get in our own, head, and sabotage our performance if
He didn’t appear many times before God to ask for the forgiveness of sins. He didn’t have to appear over and over and over. He appeared once and for all, to do away with sin forever. Jesus got to the root cause of the problem, sin. Sin is what separates us from God. And through
