Confident: Present Suffering and Future Glory, Part 1
October 4, 2023
Where is the power of the gospel in any real, tangible, practical sense? We will never grasp the answer until we understand that while our spirits have been made alive with Christ right now, our bodies have not. There is a delay.
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October 2, 2023
In reality, this is one of the more difficult parts of the Sermon on the Mount to interpret. Why does Jesus teach here about asking, seeking, and knocking?
September 30, 2023
God believes in you. In Christ you are beloved and He is well pleased with you. He comes alongside us to help us move forward toward holiness and give us His strength. Pastor Josh looks at our pursuit of holiness.
September 29, 2023
Our salvation is entirely by grace. But once we have God's spirit, we are to be holy. We have God's power and it requires our active contribution to be holy.
September 28, 2023
We are often told that heaven is beyond our imagination, yet we spend time trying to imagine it. We want to be there with Jesus and we know we were made for something more. What is the right way to long for heaven?
September 27, 2023
Is our faith in heaven dependent on our mood? When the storm of adversity comes into your life, if the house of your faith is built on emotional quicksand, will it stand?
September 26, 2023
Unless you face up to your frailty in the pleasant light of a Sunday morning, when Saturday comes with a dark tragedy for you or someone you love, where will your strength come from to believe?
September 25, 2023
These six verses are probably the most important text in the Bible for us as we engage with contemporary culture. What does it mean not to judge? How do we correctly exercise our critical faculties as we go through life?
September 23, 2023
The Spirit's filling of individual Christians dictates the health of the church. We need the work of Christ to reform us and bring us more into line with what God intended, all through the Spirit's filling.
September 22, 2023
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One group says the Bible is a book about love, mercy, and kindness. They think of the story of the Good Samaritan and of Jesus telling us to turn the other cheek. So how could anyone think the Bible prevents a tolerant society? But for another group, the Bible is far from tolerant. There’s the conquest of Canaan. There’s Elijah killing Baal’s prophets by his own hand. And in the New Testament, Jesus talks often about hell. That’s not tolerant. What then can we say in answer to this question? Get your free resource and learn more today!