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The Intentional Christian Life

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-8 – So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let…

Discovering the Joy of a Clear Conscience

TAKE UP AND READ Description from the Back Cover: Conscience is a neglected word that not many of us take seriously. But have you ever considered examining your conscience as part of daily life? What if doing this were the only way to know the joy of feeling clean inside? Is such joy possible without…

The Two Workings Of God’s Grace

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10 – But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.   Today’s scripture might be considered one of those humanly irreconcilable dilemmas in our…

The Worst of Spiritual Conditions

REVELATION 3:14-22 – “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. “ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!  So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of…

The Consequences of Spiritual Procrastination

HAGGAI 1:1-11 – In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people…

Your Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News

TAKE UP AND READ Do you see your limitations as a bad thing? Do you look back on yesteryears wishing to relive those days? Or maybe you have misunderstood the difference between being finite and fallen. In his book, Kapic addresses human finitude and how we can embrace it to the glory of God. He…