DO YOU THINK ABOUT spiritual gifts on Sunday morning before church? Do you think about how the Holy Spirit might empower you to serve and bless other people as the church gathers? Often we don’t think on that level before we get together. We think about it being too early to get up for a […]
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WHAT GOD DOES WITH a new Christian is like what someone might do to an old, abandoned house that they just bought. They move in, but before the house is livable, they have to cut down the overgrown yard, fix broken windows, repair the roof, and paint and paint some more. When you become a Christian,
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One of the reasons why it can be confusing to figure out where you stand with Christ is because there are all kinds of different people in any given local church. You would think every church would be stocked with 100% mature Christians, and that you could go to any and get a good
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LOVE IS NOT A FEELING or an emotion – it’s action. If you are a Christian, you have not been called to feel a certain way about your fellow Christians. Feelings come and go and you really can’t control them. But you have been called to a determination to bless and act in a loving
PUT YOURSELF IN THE POSITION of a parent or parents trying to get the whole family ready and out the door for church every Sunday morning (for some of you that may not be too difficult). Weeks go by and you get better and better at it. Eventually, you can be up and out the
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We all have a natural tendency to dwell on the things we don’t have – the things we wish were better or different. This past week, have you thought more about what you do have or what you don’t have? When we dwell on what we don’t have, it makes us feel down, sad, lonely,
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