Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

Choices We Make

EPHESIANS 4:17-24 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.  They have become callous and have given themselves…

Remember Who is Praying

  LUKE 22:32a – “But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.”   THEME OF THE DAY: REMEMBER WHO IS PRAYING.  It was mid-afternoon, but the thick clouds betrayed the clock.  Surely evening had arrived.  It looked like rain.  It smelled like rain.  It felt like rain.  I had no doubt the heavens were about to open.  I…

Real Christians In Real Fellowship

1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”   THEME OF THE DAY: REAL CHRISTIANS IN REAL FELLOWSHIP.  People hurt people. Yes, we live in a society of rampant physical domestic abuse, but I am referring to emotional hurt.  Family relationships are strained, people who once were so called “friends” now live…

The Thinking Christian

Romans 12:1-2 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is…