When you and I run into somebody that we don’t care for at the grocery store, what do we do? Well we turn and head in the other direction and pretend we didn’t see them, don’t we? And that is the difference between Christ and you and I. Christ authentically loved those [...]
With the multitudes so quick to assert that “All roads lead to God” - we might want to consider agreeing with and then qualifying that statement. All roads lead to God alright... One road leads to Him as Savior, and all the other roads lead to Him as Judge. This week in [...]
In this hyper-spiritualizing church culture we find ourselves living in, we often struggle with questions concerning the misfortune that comes our way. The Jews that Christ addresses in Chapter 13, would link absolutely every calamity in life to some spiritual cause, and Jesus came along and reminded them that we simply live [...]
Now we’ve all seen pictures of meek and mild Jesus beside a crib with his hand on a sleeping baby, we’ve seen pictures of Jesus with children laughing upon his lap, we’ve seen pictures of Jesus holding little lambs, and we’ve seen pictures of Jesus knocking on doors and hanging on a [...]
According the APA, 72% of adults in the United States report feeling stressed about money some of the time, while 26% report feeling stressed about money most or all of the time. Anxiety disorders are the most comment mental illness in the US, effecting some 40 million adults, or 18% of the [...]
In order for the Body of Christ to operate as God intends, there needs to be a sharing of truth within the members of a local assembly. When we show up to church and pretend to be something we’re not, we are robbing the Body of Christ from what she is intended [...]
Every single religion in the world cries out for its adherents to conform. You take your outward man, and you conform to our programs and principles, you conform to our rituals, and you conform to our list of works to get to God. Biblical Christianity says no-no, where it begins is this. [...]
The religious establishment in Israel squanders it's last opportunity to receive Christ, and Jesus uses the text to teach you and I some very important lessons concerning how to maintain our spiritual houses if you will. Having been cleansed from the penalty of sin, Christ warns us that we now have to [...]
Oswald Chambers said “Prayer does not fit us for a greater work, prayer IS the greater work.” There is very little you can do this week for the cause of the Kingdom of Christ that is more important than giving yourself over to prayer. Now if your church told you they were [...]
