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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Not a day goes by, it seems, where we can escape the pressure of gaining and achieving. We are bombarded with goals and dreams of getting smarter, richer, better! Paul was aware of this same mentality. We find that he out of anyone would have reason to boast in his status, heritage, and achievements. […]
Several of us have experienced the storms of life and we approach it not unlike the disciples in Matthew 8:23-27 (ESV) And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. […]
I remember attending a well known training years ago where I learned that our maturation process begins at the stage of dependence, then transitions to independence, and finally arrives at interdependence. I see God’s process as a different paradigm all together. Maturing in Christ begins when we give up our perceived independence, embrace our dependence, […]