Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

Keep Christ-Centered Company

PHILIPPIANS 3:17 – Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. THEME OF THE DAY. KEEP CHRIST-CENTERED COMPANY. In today’s scripture, the Apostle Paul instructs the Philippian believers to do two things. First, he tells them to imitate him – “Brothers, join in imitating me.” Seems rather bold, doesn’t…

Scripture-Directed Spiritual Experiences

This Lord’s Day evening we continue our series in 1 John looking at the spiritual experiences of the Christian life as they are directed by the Scriptures. We hope to establish the “spiritual guardrails” enabling us to discern if a spiritual experience we are having is truly of the Lord or a counterfeit as defined by the Word of God, not our subjective experience.

Take The High Road

EPHESIANS 4:1-3 – I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. THEME OF THE DAY. TAKE THE HIGH ROAD. Let’s…

Don’t Take It For Granted

2 CORINTHIANS 4:6 – For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. THEME OF THE DAY. DON’T TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. Let me encourage us to do something soon. Actually, three things. First, in the course of…

Heaven: The Place Of Perfection

2 PETER 3:11–13 – Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to…