The transforming ability of God's Wor
... 5:26, the Bible says that Christ is cleansing the church by “washing with water through the word.” The word of God provides great support as God washes us with Christ’s blood and with baptism.
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Faithful God, faithful believers
... this scripture true in us. When we gave ourselves in baptism, God started a peculiar work in us. He began to nurture us from within His own Spirit which He gave us.
His expectation is that we become ...
The windowpanes
... its beauty. This kept me thinking for some time about what the blood of Christ does for us. Right from the time when we give ourselves up for baptism and throughout our journey with Christ, His blood cleans ...
Still New?
... “new creation”. We came into Christ by believing that He is the Son of God (Acts 8:37; Mark 16:15-16), dying with Him through baptism (Rom. 6:3-5) which gives us a new birth (John 3:3-5). Through this, ...
Remember me
... changed from our old sinful ways and ready to accept the righteous way of our Lord Jesus. By this, we accept to be buried with Him in baptism and be raised from the dead into a new life (Colossians 2:12). ...
Being all out for Christ
... referring only to the way we behave in church on Sundays. When we have put on Christ in baptism, we will exemplify compassion, kindness, humility, forgiveness, thankfulness, and love all the time, as wel ...
Love and prayer makes it possible
... alone, and also woke up at dawn to pray alone – “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God - Lk. 6:12 (NIV). He prayed during his baptism (Lk. 3:21) ...
Death before life
... by burial in water - baptism. After one is raised up out of the water, one is said to have been raised up from the dead with Christ to live in newness of life (Romans 6:4).
Death before life, then life ...
Walk with God
... cannot please or walk with God. Our walk with God begins with our willingness to reconcile our lives to Christ. Those who accept the gospel of Christ, repent, confess faith in Christ and allow for baptism. ...
Will all good people be saved?
Many times we have heard people say, "God will save all good people." This implies that there are good people in all churches who will be saved. It also implies that there may even be good people who have ...