Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your […]
We are definitely headed into greater and greater testing as the darkness rises. Judgment always begins in His house first. We who call ourselves His by taking the title “Christian” will be subject to testing to find out if our declaration to Him is really true. We’ve seen tests of this globally in the last
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But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and
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What do we do with truth that upsets us? Do we just dismiss it? Do we try to ignore it? Do we get emotional and throw a tantrum? Do we just let our anger take over our reaction? Do we throw insults at the truth hoping that it will go away? Why is the Truth
What is eternal? What will die and pass away into nothing? What practices do we have that have zero eternal value? What are we doing to pacify our nagging consciences? Much of what we experience in the current ‘Christian institution’ are man-made rituals that do not have ANY eternal value. It’s architecture, ritual liturgy, music,
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Ekklesia and Koinonia. These are the terms that were used in the original letters to The Way in the first century. Ekklesia is what we translate as ‘church’. Koinonia is what we translate communion, or a more modern translation would be fellowship. So the ‘coming together’ (ekklesia) where they met in each others homes and
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T. Austin-Sparks is the Guest Writer for today’s Daily Devotional (It was so good I just wanted to share it will all the readers) ————————————— I have told you all this so that you may find your peace in me. You will find trouble in the world—but, never lose heart, I have conquered the world!
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 Certainly we all have ‘those’ days. The days when it all seems so overwhelming and hard. When everywhere you look it seems that the righteous and those that love are losing.
(In a Dad’s voice.) In the parable of the talents those servants were given things to use in their master / employer’s service. Those that used those things to get ahead — were praised and given even more responsibility when their master / employer showed up. The servant that did nothing with their resources, who
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the
