Dear Reader, Do you sing the song “Holy Ground” in your worship service? We do. Like many, you probably feel His presence there. Where God is, is holy ground. We sing that song at church too. But I’m wondering who goes home leaving the holy ground behind? We might leave the feelings behind, but not God. So where is God?. He said through the prophet Jeremiah that He fills all space. And through King David, He said that David could…
Just the thought of being rewarded for some good I have done brings me a sense of anticipation. It encourages me to try harder. Sometimes it seems that any good we might do is canceled out by our failures making our efforts seem fruitless. Source of rewards Jesus wants to prevent those inevitable failures. Yes, they are inevitable because it is from our efforts. It is our resources. Flesh. Apostle Paul tells us that in him, the best of the…
Finding inner peace. Peace with ourselves. We all long for that. You know, the inner conflict we struggle with that keeps peace away. That inner tug-of-war between what self wants and what God is wanting for us. Remember how Paul described his inner turmoil in Romans 7? He wanted to do what was right, but found himself doing the opposite. Living independently from God is the path Adam and Eve chose. We struggle with that same temptation. In chapter 8…
Successful Christian Do you wonder how to make spiritual success real in your life? How do you overcome besetting sins? How to be more loving, patient, etc.? What has been done for us has already been done. There is no more for Jesus to do for us. It has already been done. He did it all through His life, death and resurrection. It is done. Even He said it as He was dying. Remember? He said, “It is finished.” How…
I would like to share an excerpt from my upcoming E-book called Walking on Water. Our Christian life is made real by faith. Walking on water is an example of believing and substantiating, making real the promises of God. Introduction Today we can choose to believe. Today we can choose to walk on water. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” Hebrews 11:1 Walking on water is a picture of faith. Faith…
Can you begin this new and uncertain year with a pure heart? “But, I can’t,” you say? “My heart isn’t pure and I don’t know how to make it pure. I can try to be better, but there are stains and dirt from previous sins.” A pure heart contains no mixture. Part this, part that. Part God, part other. Jesus told us that seeing God is for the pure in heart. That leaves us in a dilemma. No one is…
Have you read the Beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5 lately? It talks about being poor in spirit and pure in heart. Jesus said that it will be the pure in heart that sees God. And He says that the kingdom of God is for the poor in spirit. Pure in heart? Do you know anyone that is pure in heart? What about poor in spirit? What does that mean? What does that mean today? Are they just nice-sounding words that…
Through Adam’s transgression all sin. His transgression introduced God’s judgment and condemnation resulting in death, eternal separation from our creator. That’s our “gift” through inheritance from Adam. Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, we have been given the gift of grace. His death and resurrection bring us the gift of righteousness(being made clean) and justification (being made right in God’s sight). We no longer have the sentence of death awaiting us. Instead, we have His gift of eternal…
I mentioned previously that I would search for the key to life abounding in the life of Christ. Paul tells us how this works in Romans 6-8. Specifically, when Jesus died we died, when He was buried we were buried, when He was resurrected to a new life so were we. By faith, we reckon it so. Count it done. Credit it to our account. So how does this work? Resurrection leads to life abounding As believers raised from the…
