What is keeping you from drawing near to God? Is it that you don’t know how to act properly, or don’t believe fully, or feel guilty and ashamed about something that’s been done in your past? Be assured that God wants you to draw near to Him just like that – with a true, honest […]
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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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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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