Young Women Searching After God’s Own Heart: Part 2

This is Part Two of a message my sister recently shared with the young women of the church we attend. These words apply to those of us males also. So how do we do it? The first thing we have to do is get into the Word. I don’t care how old or young you…

Young Women Searching After God’s Own Heart: Part 1

This is the first part of an encouraging message my sister shared with the young women of my church. Romans 12:1-2 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to…

Now That Easter is Over-Now What?

JESUS IS RISEN You and I sung about that at church this past weekend. We read Scriptures about that to. We wore our Easter best to worship (some to show their new outfits) to celebrate the Resurrection. 1. Now What? Beyond any doubts for we Christians, Easter is the most important day on our calendar.…

Everybody Is Not Your Friend, So Keep God First

Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t always mean they are for you. Just because they say they got your back, doesn’t mean they won’t stab you in it. “Even some people who profess to be Christians.” People “Even some professing Christians,” pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn’t…

Integrity Matters: A Powerful Witness

Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work. Brothers and sisters, honest weights and scales matter to God, because God is perfectly true. Falsehood and dishonesty do not merely cheat people, they also offend God. A few days ago, I took my car to…

Loving The Unlovely

ROMANS 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. In the aforementioned Scripture, Paul gives us a good dose of compassion, humility, and service, all packaged into God-given emotions of love. For many of us it’s…

Hate Sin, Love People

Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Hate is acceptable to God only when it is directed towards evil. We should love God and hate evil. We should love people and hate evil things and evil…

When Faith Is Tested

James 1:1-8;22 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work,…

Leadership

Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:” It is impossible to be a leader without being a man or…

WWJD

“Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.” Philippians 1:27 (English Standard Version)…