If God is your Dad, then you can count on the fact that your training will include discipline. Join us today as we explore what that actually means and figure out how God wants us to respond to it.
To Know Him and Make Him Known
Sermons on Hebrews
The secret ingredient that made the first Christmas possible was SUBMISSION to the Father’s plan. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph all chose to exchange their own ways for the ways of the God they trusted in order to bring about a noble goal.”
When you are confronted with your own sinfulness, it’s easy to push Jesus away out of shame. Simon teaches us to never do that, because Jesus already knows all about our sin and comes looking for us to invite us to join Him in relationship and on mission anyway.
Jesus had a plan to handle temptation in the heat of the moment – he identified the lie, confronted it with God’s truth, and then declared his allegiance to the truth. Ultimately, God satisfied his needs at the right time. If we are willing, we can begin to experience that same kind of success as…
Jesus suffered through the temptations He faced, but He was fully faithful to His Father. He prepared for these temptations years before they happened by learning to say “no” to his normal human desires and by grounding Himself in God’s truth. He can help us have victory too if we are willing to prepare as…
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus was fully human, but the implications can make us uncomfortable at times. Jesus had a real body that could be injured and killed; he experienced normal human development and suffered as we do so that He would be qualified to be our Savior and welcomed by us as our…
What would the world conclude about what God is like based on what they can see of your commitment to gathering regularly as the Church?