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Life
What is your response when you face an overwhelming and, from our perspective, a an impossible situation? There is story in the Old Testament about a woman who faced a heartbreaking tragedy: Now a woman of the wives of the… Continue Reading →
A great frustration of life is knowing what we want to do, but instead we do the very thing we don’t want to do. If you have ever been on a diet, then you can relate to this dilemma. Don’t… Continue Reading →
We finished our Breakthrough sermon series today and learned how we can have victory over our struggle with sin. We do not need to remain in the struggle of Romans 7, but we can experience the fullness of the Holy… Continue Reading →
God is with us when we are with Him. What does it look like when a person is walking with God? The Apostle Paul delivers five present tense imperatives that, if practiced, may enable one to walk with God: Finally,… Continue Reading →
John 11:1-44 not only depicts one of Jesus’ greatest miracles, the raising of Lazarus from the dead, it also provides insight into the difference between God’s perspective and ours. To Jesus, Lazarus being dead, embalmed, wrapped, and sealed in a… Continue Reading →
The prophet Isaiah was living in a time of uncertainty. King Uzziah had died and the nation was facing a significant transition. Where do you turn in times of uncertainty? Isaiah went to meet with God and saw an amazing… Continue Reading →
How’s the condition of your conscience? It’s been said that a clear conscience is a soft pillow. As the Apostle Paul gave his defense before Felix, he was diligent to declare that he had a blameless conscience before God and… Continue Reading →
We find that urgent concerns have a tendency to crowd out important matters. In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John identified several ways that churches may go astray and lose sight of what is most important. The church at… Continue Reading →
Advertisements for “new and improved” have abounded for as long as we can remember, and likely for as long as our ancestors could remember. (We can imagine marketers proclaiming to parents that in order for their children to keep up… Continue Reading →
Or, if we do fall, call for help right away! That’s what I did when I suddenly found myself on the floor of my living room, my leg/hip in excruciating pain, having just fallen from the fourth stair up. That… Continue Reading →
Our personalities are an amalgam of a multitude of factors. Our personal temperament, environment, and significant emotional events combine to determine our beliefs and behaviors. These factors may be contaminated by false teaching and traumatic events that can lead to… Continue Reading →
When we see a large task before us it can appear to be overwhelming. In our desire to ameliorate the situation we may dive in and start to do a good work, but it may not be a God work…. Continue Reading →
We become like who or what we trust in. Ps. 115:8 tells us: “Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.” The “them” here refers to idols, which the Psalmist has proven in… Continue Reading →
Warfare is an inevitable fact of life. Our adversary is a formidable foe, but God enables us to be victorious. The Apostle John recorded a glimpse into the warfare taking place in the heavenly realm: And the great dragon was… Continue Reading →
We can’t know the future, even though fortune-tellers would like us to believe we can. Sadly, many people do believe that and go to them, even though it’s crystal-ball clear they don’t know our future any more than we do…. Continue Reading →
