Encouragement

Why don’t you just make me obey, God?

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If you’re like me, you’ve asked the question at some point, “Why don’t you just make me obey God?”.  There are times that I’m so sick of my sin that I just want Him to take it all and make me obey.   I mean He has the power to do anything, why not do […]

Encouragement

Just do it – a reflection on God’s word

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Just do it  What a great marketing slogan..After years it still stirs up excitement and causes us to ask the question, Do what?  James could have been the poster child for this slogan.  Check out James 1:22-25 (ESV) below: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a […]

Encouragement

Why not ask who? – A new perspective

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As a pastor who counsels others from scripture, I repeatedly hear questions beginning with “Why”.  Why do I keep being rejected by others?  Why did I lose my job? Why did God allow me to be abused?  As someone, who spent years trying to figure out the answer to all of myWhy questions, I came […]

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Pastor Saeed – an example of Romans 5 #SaveSaeed

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Romans 5:1-5(ESV) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and […]

Encouragement

Who do you live that I am?

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As a Christian, we have a tendency to bombard our selves with the question of “Am I doing the right things?”.  Christ on the other hand has a different way of looking at the same issue.  He asks, “Who do you say and live that I am?”;  A strange question that even grammatically doesn’t sound […]

Encouragement

Encouragement & Prayer For You

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Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ: I continue to pray for you as you shine the light of Christ in darkness.  Oh how alone the enemy tries to make us feel as followers of Christ.  Thoughts prevade, am I the only one who cares?  Am I really making a difference? Is it really worth it? […]

Encouragement

How do you know God is real?

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When we truly submit to God, we eventually reach a point where we have seen the hand of God so many times that we simply cannot deny His presence.  There are events that happen that clearly point back to His sovereign grace.  They cannot be explained by coincidence or science.  This morning I’d love the […]

Encouragement

Come Taste and See – a reflection on psalm 34

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One of my favorite answers to give someone when they ask about how I know God is real is, “Come, taste and see”.  Too many times as Christians we feel like we have to have the perfect answers to “convert” others from death to life in that moment or explain our entire walk with God […]

Encouragement

It is finished

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Being the single-threader male that I am, I love finishing a project so much so that sometimes I go back and visit the completed task and rejoice that “it is finished”. I may do that several times enjoying it more each time I see it.  Guys you know what I’m talking about 🙂 There is […]