We’re going to be looking at love today from 1 John 4:7-12. The world sees love as important and is full of different types of love, but it’s often mixed up about what love actually is. When Scripture talks about love, it points to a brotherly love (Romans 12:10), a father-son type love (1 Corinthians […]
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For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at different topics in Proverbs. We talked about our words (“How to Use Your Words Wisely“), work (“How to Work Wisely“), and wisdom vs. folly and righteousness vs. wickedness (“Wisdom for Everyday Christian Life“). Today we’ll be looking at another important topic introduced in Proverbs 10:27-30: the
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When you become a Christian, you become a citizen of the kingdom of God. And just like the United States has it’s own culture, God’s kingdom has a distinct culture too. As Christians, then, we’re like foreigners living out the culture of our future kingdom, and people will look at us and say, “You’re not
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As Christians, we’re not just forgiven of our sins so that we don’t go to hell. We’re also brought into a new way of life and given the resources to live according to God’s ways. Our faith isn’t just a safety precaution – it’s a daily guidance. And so God’s Word addresses all kinds of
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Wisdom is what lies behind the New Year’s resolutions that we make. We want to live wisely and make good decisions, aligning our goals with how reality works. We make resolutions to get ourselves back together and live according to the way God set things up to work. And that’s what wisdom is. Proverbs is
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2019 . . . It’s been another great year for our blog! A big “thank you” to everyone who contributed and to those who checked in to make it worth the effort. We greatly enjoyed reading the comments and learning just how the Lord has been at work through this ministry. To Him be the
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