We have been given access to God through Jesus Christ, and that means we should consider each other and encourage one another, “and all the more as [we] see the Day drawing near” (v. 25). Jesus is coming. Let’s replace our habits of neglect with habits of encouragement and do everything we can to stir up […]
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People go through a cycle of bolting themselves from one shakeable and unreliable object to another for security, never finding rest for their souls. But not so for us, because – through Jesus Christ – we have been bolted to God Himself in the new covenant. The only immovable things in this world are the
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In Matthew 7:7-11, there is so much to learn about prayer. But, there is even more to learn about how God answers prayer. He answers in His way, in a perfect way and in a loving way, and He gives us so much more than we ask or imagine. There can be no way of
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Membership at a local church is a spiritual discipline. It’s not the law, but you’ll have a very difficult time obeying Jesus’ communal commands without some kind of commitment to a specific group of Christians – it will just be too easy and tempting to slip away from it. Simply put, church membership is a
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Christians are not only reconciled to God, but also to His people. God is not saving a constellation of individual Christians encapsulated from one another, He is saving a people, gathering a nation – and you’ll never understand who you are or what you are as a Christian if you think of yourself only
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The biggest thing missing from someone who is not a Christian is not that they need more religious stuff going on in their lives or they need to be nicer – it’s that they need their relationship with God to be made right. It’s really, really great to be Christians together. And we want to
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