Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

The Place We Will All Arrive

COLOSSIANS 2:9, 10 – For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. THEME OF THE DAY. THE PLACE WE WILL ALL ARRIVE. It takes time for all of us to get there. We must experience failure along the way to get us to this…

What Is Behind Our Trials?

1 PETER 1:6–7 – In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. THEME OF THE DAY.…

The Willing Heart Of God

LUKE 5:12-13 – While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. THEME OF…

What We Are Really Saying

PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 – Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in…

Do We Want To Be Used By The Lord?

2 TIMOTHY 2:20-21 – Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every…

The devil and Our Past

PHILIPPIANS 3:12-14 – Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I…