Word For The Day: God’s Love In Discipline
Today I want to continue a series of devotions on “Trusting God Even When Life Hurts.” These devotions summarize a book by Jerry Bridges with the same title. I hope you will get a copy of that book and read it for yourself! We have seen that God is Sovereign and loving, but this does…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Love God With All Your Heart
If you were to summarize all that God requires of you, it would seem like an impossible task. If you were asked to narrow down in one sentence all of God’s demands upon you in relationship to him, what would you say? It seems impossible, but Jesus did it for us, and he put it…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Trust in The Lord With All Your Heart
One of the greatest truths of Christianity is the idea of trusting God; in fact, you can only become a Christian if you trust in his righteousness and not your own, but once you become a Christian by trusting in his righteousness, it begins a life of absolute trust in God; a trust that must…
Read MoreConnection Group: Living in Gospel Community Requires Confrontation
The connection group discussion this week: Confronting Others For Change. Our Person Study is Peter: Definition of Confront – to rebuke, correct. Prov. 6:23, Titus 2:11-12,15, Prov. 3:11-12 First Confrontation in Scripture In the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:9,11,13) 1. What was God’s purpose in confronting Adam & Eve? Answer – To cause them to…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Purity of Heart
In the last few devotionals, we have been talking about issues of the heart. Today I would like to take you again to the most famous sermon ever preached, the sermon on the mount. In it, Jesus talks about the righteousness that is need of a citizen of the kingdom, a righteousness of the heart.…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Beware! Your Heart Is Deceitful
I have been sharing with you about the importance of the heart and having a heart that honors and glorifies God. We have learned that the heart is the center of who we are and we are to love God with all of our heart. We must also make sure that our deeds of righteousness…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Living As Pilgrims
The Bible describes Christians as pilgrims. Pilgrims are people who are in a place but don’t belong there, they are only passing through and therefore cannot get comfortable there. The Bible then commands us to think of heavenly things as we walk on our earthly journey because what’s most important is not the journey but…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Treasures
I believe that everything we do and say comes from what is inside of us, from what our heart desires and craves. When we look at the Bible, it is very clear that God desires what is best for us and most glorifying to him, and he knows that what will satisfy you the most…
Read MoreWord for the Day: Sincere Righteousness Is Done For God, Not For People
One of the things with which we struggle the most as Christians is transparency and genuineness in our motives. Many times, we do good Christian things but in our heart, our motive is not the right one and it then becomes a sin to us. In other words, it is very easy to do acts…
Read MoreWord For The Day: Pray For Opportunities to Share the Gospel
This is the last day of our devotional study on praying for the advancement of the gospel. Today’s Word for the Day is found in Colossians 4:2-4. Please turn your Bibles to that passage and read that text. WHAT: Paul is writing this letter from a prison cell. As he writes he is asking for…
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