Joy is critical to Christian living and Christian witness. It is a part of the cluster in the Fruit of the Spirit. It is also what distinguishes Christians from unsaved people.
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
New Testament
LUKE 19:47-48 – And Jesus was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy Him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on His words.” THEME OF THE DAY: HANGING ON HIS EVERY WORD. I guess the appropriate way to approach…
LUKE 20:17-18 – But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “ ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” As believers in Jesus Christ, we rejoice that He is our Rock. This…
1 John 3:11-18 – For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because hi sown deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be surprised brother, that the world…
The giving of thanks is simply the right thing to do in relationship between the All-Giving Creator and the always dependent creature.
Let’s face it. The Christian life as defined by the Lord in His Word is a call to exhausting labor, tiresome service, sacrificial giving, fierce self-denial, and will flat out drain the obedient Christian to the demands of obedience Christ places upon us.