Tag: Jesus Christ
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Learning Obedience
“Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 Now wait a minute! What do you mean Jesus learned obedience? He never disobeyed. We have to learn to obey God, but Jesus always obeyed the commands of God. Jesus “was in all points tempted as we are,…
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Forsake Me Not
One of our elders recently asked us, before partaking of communion, to think of someone we are really close to, someone we trust and rely on, like a spouse, a parent, or a child. Then he asked us to imagine the pain we would feel if that person turned on us.
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Lighting The Fire
Sometimes we speak of our spiritual lives as a fire. We ask God to “light the fire in my heart again.” But building a campfire is not always easy, and it can also be difficult to light the fires of Christian zeal.
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Maturing In The Lord
Have you ever run into a Christian who seems to take God’s forgiveness for granted? They willingly admit their mistakes but are so quick to claim God’s grace, they sound like a kid who has made a mess and flippantly says, “Oh well, Mom will take care of it.”
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Yawning In Church
Have you ever fallen asleep during a sermon? We usually assume, if that happens, either the preacher is boring or the person is spiritually weak. But there are many reasons someone might fall asleep in church.
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Don’t Settle For Lesser Things
Children are not good at judging and comparing the value of things. They will often choose whatever pleasant thing comes first, even if it is of far less value. This idea comes from C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory, and he applies it to the difficulty we have in comparing the value of physical…
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What Shall We Do?
Some Pharisees spent just as much time and energy trying to get rid of the apostles as they had spent getting rid of Jesus. Eventually most of the apostles died as martyrs, but the church still spread and continues to this day. These unbelievers were fighting against God, as Gamaliel put it in Acts 5:39,…
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Warning Signs
When it comes to our spiritual growth, do we recognize the signs of oncoming apathy or weakening to temptation? What about in our Christian brothers and sisters?
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Simple Acts Of Faith
We might be called upon to take huge life-altering risks or to endure physical torture and death for our faith. But what if we’re not? How can we show our faith if we’re just living a normal life without such extreme circumstances?
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