Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

Knowing God Through Prayer – Part 4

This Lord’s Day morning, we continue our study of the Apostle Paul’s first prayer for the believers in Ephesus. His initial petition is that they would know God deeper meaning they already knew Him. Is this how and what we pray for – to know God more? We hope to look at reasons from Ephesians 1 that will prompt and shape us to pray as we see from the Apostle Paul.

Our Greatest Need

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-3 – If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give…

Glorious Bookends

ROMANS 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ROMANS 8:38-39 – For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God…

It Will Be Enough

JOHN 13:1 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. THEME OF THE DAY. IT WILL BE ENOUGH. Life is hard. Life is burdensome. Life is wearisome and life is…

Are We Begging Christians?

MARK 5:18 – As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. THEME OF THE DAY. ARE WE BEGGING CHRISTIANS? Today’s scripture is on the heels of a riveting account of Jesus casting out many demons from a single man. The entirety of this miracle by the Lord…