Growth
đź“– Word For The Day: God Works Through Adversity
            God is at work in us to cause us to grow. He does not consult us to find out if we feel the need for growth, or ask us how we would like to grow. As a well-skilled farmer, God tends his own.…
Read Moređź“– Word For The Day: Growing Through Adversity
            Who among us enjoys an encounter with adversity? We desire for everything to go according to plan, and for life to be easy. Why is it that the reality of our Christian life is something very different? Adversity is the womb in which…
Read MoreAN URGENT WARNING TO HEAVEN’S CITIZENS
A person becomes an automatic citizen of a country by birth. Our first child born in Africa was Austin.  He was born in the Kalalushi Mine Hospital.  After Austin was born the hospital gave us a hospital report of birth.  We took that report to the Office of Births and Deaths in Lusaka and received a…
Read MoreChrist Our Greatest Treasure
Today we find ourselves in the third chapter of Paul’s letter to this church in the city of Philippi. Throughout this letter of Philippians Paul has confronted these Christians with the need to embrace right thinking! Our thinking affects our living – what we believe, what our minds are occupied with will determine how we view…
Read MoreThe People God Uses To Serve His Church
Today in our text Philippians 2:19-30, we see the people God uses to serve His church. The context helps us understand the environment of the people Paul is writing to.  Paul is calling the Philippian Christians to behave as citizens worthy of the gospel of Christ (1:27). Philippi was a Roman colony with a population of…
Read MoreOne Philosophy – To Live Is Christ, To Die Is Gain
What is your philosophy of life? To what in life would you respond with the words, “Man! This is Living!”? Everyone lives by a set of values – things you believe are important. These beliefs form your philosophy of life. Your philosophy of life determines how you view the world.  They shape how you view…
Read MoreOne Fellowship – The Fellowship of the Gospel
Our text is taken today from Philippians 1:3-8. We all live for something, each of us have a purpose in our life. Whether or not you could articulate what you are living for right now or not, doesn’t change the fact that it exists. When people share a common goal, there is a very high…
Read MoreGod As The Refiner
Malachi 3:3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the Lord An offering in righteousness. Background of Malachi:Â Malachi was written to the Levites or to the priests because they had lost…
Read MoreHow To Walk Worthy of Your Calling
In our series on Discovering the Church we have looked at four pictures of the church. We have seen the church as a family and the goal is maturity.  We also saw the church as a field – the goal being the quantity of our fruitfulness. We have seen the church as a building the temple…
Read MoreUnderstanding The Solution To Pressure & Strain
 2 Co 4:16-18 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are…
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