What is your opinion, stand on works? Is your reaction – “look at all I’m doing, of course I believe in works – that’s what I do!” For a moment consider Ephesians 2:8-10 “For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from […]
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This thought passed through my thinking as I was attending a meeting recently. We sometimes forget that -1- can make a tremendous statement. Now… apply this to you and what you do and say (and don’t). I’ve heard it said that it really isn’t all that important since it was only me (1). Not true.
That whine is really most unbecoming. And we do this in so many ways and times. For the Christian it really should never pass our lips … but it does even though we are told to take off the old man and put on the new man… “If in fact you have [really] heard Him
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We are told to ‘consider’, tests and challenges and trials!!! Who would ‘consider’ that? Doesn’t mean it isn’t a good thing though. But… what do we get from doing this? How do we view tests, challenges, and trials? Unfair? How are we to ‘consider’? “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come
I know I’ve written on Mary and Martha before, but not in this context. If I had a choice, I would want to be Mary. But I think there could be too much of Martha in me. Not to disparage Martha – she had many admirable qualities and if Martha was like Mary… Still, I’d
Can you even get your head around how the God of the universe acts toward His creation? How do you explain, understand – grace. “God’s grace is usually defined as undeserved favor. Grace cannot be earned; it is something that is freely given. We count on God’s grace and the bridge He built in our
Can’t take the credit… my friend Keith penned and pinned the following to one of my posts that I really felt was apt: “Faith without works is dead! Love without expression is dead! Hope without articulation is dead! Worship without the spirit and truth is dead! The Body without the Spirit is dead! Have no
I may have taken a right when I should have continued straight ahead, but I got intrigued with the word – devotional. Do we really know what it means? Do we know how to ‘do’ it? So I did a bit of a deep dive. Most of the scriptural references on this word are found
Seriously … how important are you? I suppose that I should also ask – who is answering the question? And, with whose eyes are you viewing you? Do you see you through the eyes of disappointment? or failure? Do you look at what you’ve done? or not done? Do you see you through the eyes
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I read the following on a FB post by a friend: “Ponder how valuable your soul must be for satan to tirelessly pursue it and the King to lay down His life for it.” I have no idea who said this and could be attributed to, but it’s the kind of question that pulls no
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
