We can't fool Go
... genuine devotion.
Are you a churchgoing hypocrite, depending on your own good works to gain entrance into heaven? Or are you trusting God's grace and relying on Christ? You can't fool God. It's not enough ...
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In Christ alone is salvation
... over everything for the church"
This means that whatever it is that we seek as individuals, it is through Christ because everything has been placed under his feet. They all belong to him. And as Christians, ...
Unity in the Body
... would fall (1 Cor. 10:32). Unity within the church is the theme of 1 Corinthians.
At the end of 1 Corinthians 12, Paul creates a marvellous mind picture of unity: the body. When we consider our bodies, ...
Standing out from the crowd
... anti-social. But it is also prudent to hold on to our principles as Christians even if that will eventually make us anti-social.
The apostle Peter had to write to the churches in Asia Minor to encourage ...
The Christian lineage
... the church. You need to father a spiritual child. This is the only way through which we received Christianity. And is still the way through which Christianity will reach posterity.
Mary was conceived ...
Salt of the Earth
... preservative” of our time. God has chosen His Church to be the people who keep the world around us from heading towards decay and rottenness.
As Christians, we need to take this role seriously. Hebrews ...
How beautiful are those who preach the Good News
... it with others.
The Church in particular needs men like the preacher who wrote Ecclesiastes. Because without preachers the same thing could happen to us that might have happened to Noah and David. Imagine ...
Beyond the eyes
... committed the situation to the Lord in prayer.
Similarly, Christians must also go beyond the first “seeing”-which can easily elude us. As stated by Winston Churchill during a time of war “Now this is ...
World of temptations
... the fellowship of believers (church), Heb. 11:25.
Darrel is a young handsome man who got involved in a sexual relationship with Tori. They were both Christians but their relationship was fuelled by ...
Be a Jonathan
... only in relation to giving within the church premises when we meet to worship on the first day of every week, it extends beyond. Jonathan gave protection whenever there was a conspiracy against his friend. ...
Train to Win
... Christian life involves individual and group struggles. If you are defeated as an individual Christian, it also affects the Church as a group. There is no draw in the spiritual warfare we are engaged in ...
The evidence of our faith (Part two)
... community as the “other immediate family” to obtain some reminders.
The church of the Lord being the community of believers is commanded to be full of action and good deeds among themselves. We are ...
Knit together in love
... to the church at Colossae, affirms his heart's desire for the church even those in Laodicea. He expresses how positive he thinks about the church even in his absence.
Beloved, we need to take a cue from ...
Make giving a must-do activity
... daily, yourself, time, money, knowledge etc. to the benefit of all, especially, those in the church. In Christianity, love (giving) is a “must-do” activity. God bless you.
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The Excellent Way
... through love.
Many divine institutions like the family and the church are losing their effect on society because of the low level of love that is demonstrated. Christians can only transform the world ...
Written not with ink
... living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” (NIV) II Corinthians 3:2-3.
Paul, an apostle of Christ in his writing to the church at Corinth indicated how the church recommended ...
Show love
... that sins of commission (doing something we shouldn’t do) are equally as wrong as sins of omission (not doing the things we should do).
The church is the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27) and as ...
Everyone needs an angel
... a boy went to church every single day to pray to God so he could read well at school. In the process, he had to leave his dog outside the auditorium to a beggar who sits right beside the church gate. Because ...
Serving One Another Through Love
... gifts, but these gifts will be worthless unless they are used in the service of God and His Church. In the Bible, Paul often uses the parts of the human body to show their dependence on each other and ...
Reason or Passion
... for success in many aspects of our lives; becoming a Christian (Acts 24:25), being happy, unity in the Lord’s church, leading a pure and godly life, happy marriage and being a faithful, fulfilled person ...