To Know Him and Make Him Known
Each of us has to choose who will call the shots when we face threats and feel fear. If we allow anxiety to be the boss, we’ll slide into God-dishonoring, self-destructive behavior. But if we turn to God and express our desires to Him, His peace will protect us from unhinged thoughts and feelings so…
Sharp disagreements happen in church all the time, even between believers who are very committed to Jesus and to His mission. Upside-down thinking wants us to react to this by pulling away from one another, but Paul challenges us all to stay together long enough to resolve our differences, with the help of the church,…
We are all pursuing something, either our immediate satisfaction or our ultimate transformation. Paul challenges us to make our life’s pursuit to be “Me 2.0” in God’s eternal kingdom. If we are going to do this, it will require us to think differently; we have to be humble, refuse to get stuck in the past,…
God has communicated clearly what He wants from us. He is not impressed by our lineage, accomplishments, or status as moral people, because they cause us to shift all our confidence and hope onto our own abilities and skills. The only way to be “good” with God is to put all of our confidence in…
Ahhhh…role models. Is there even a point to following them anymore?
Paul delivers to the Philippians their mission as a church: to shine as lights in the world and hold fast the word of life. Carrying it out successfully calls for getting rid of hindrances and meeting certain requirements. But it’s worth the effort, both for future glory for Christ and for present joy in serving…
Sermon Summary: While God alone is the one who gives the gift of salvation, those of us who receive it are responsible to put it into practice in our everyday life. We do this by taking the initiative to obey God while trusting Him to empower our efforts to obey Him.