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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Big Idea: In 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, I believe Paul is addressing a specific issue in the ancient Corinthian church. Women were coming to worship gatherings without their head coverings, which, in that society, were the culturally understood symbols of respectability and chastity. Women who went into public without head coverings were associated with sexual immorality
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In America, you can drive past 10 churches that don’t suit your preferences and then go to the one that fits like a glove – the one where everybody’s just like you, where all the opinions are just like yours, and where you feel the most comfortable. But in ancient Corinth, they didn’t have churches