Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Grace

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…

Motivated By Love

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 – Let all that you do be done in love.”   It is less than ten words, yet, like a small stick of dynamite, it contains enormous power. In fact, it is the greatest power in the earth.  It heals hurts.  It carries burdens.  It lifts the downcast.  It removes the dark clouds of depression.  And in God’s work…

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…