The Culture of Hope Founded on Faith
Speak the Truth in Love, Part 2
My husband recently reminded me of an old saying that, as Christians, we are called to preach the gospel all the time and use words when necessary. It is our lives and what we communicate through our holy living and love that demonstrates to the world that we belong to Christ. It is, in fact, Christ living through us that becomes…..
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Speak the Truth in Love, Part 1
Quite often what we say gets us into a lot of trouble and causes deep division, even between the best of friends. In the public sphere these days, we hear many opinions that are touted as fact. Likewise, there is a lot of censure for the expression of contrary opinions. But Believers are in a unique position to counter the falsity…..
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What Fellowship Is All About
In Hebrews 10:24-25 we are urged to “…consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching.” In the New Testament there are numerous passages that address the expression of our unity in Christ…..
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Perfect and Entire
Among the very last verses of Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews declares God’s sovereignty in the individual lives of believers and blesses his readers with the desire for God’s perfecting work in their lives:
“Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you…..
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Jesus Our Example
The New Year is a good time to reflect on what God has accomplished in our lives in the past year. My focus has been on the people God has sent into my life in 2019 to not only encourage and pray for me, but also to challenge me to become more like Him. During our move in January we enjoyed the help and answers…..
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The Anchor of Our Souls
As we move into 2020, it’s hard not to bemoan how fast the opportunities of 2019 have slipped past us. At the same time, our culture demonstrates an ever-increasing deterioration, leaving many hopeless and without anything solid to hold onto. Hebrews 6:17-20 gives me comfort because it reminds me of the firm foundation on which my life stands anchored in Christ:
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The Rest of the Christmas Story
When we think of priests, we generally have in mind either a cassocked representative of the Catholic Church or a Sunday school picture of priests overseeing daily sacrifices in the Old Testament Tabernacle. But we, as Christians, are also called priests (and kings) according to Revelation. 1:5b-6: “Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,…..
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A Coming-Alongside Love
During a recent conversation about the function of God’s people within the Church, the topic of forgiving others when they confess sin that shocks us was discussed. But we are not called to forgive when someone confesses to us. According to 1 John 1: 9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from…..
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The God of All Comfort
The Bible reveals many character-reflective titles for God. Among my favorite and most used is found in 2 Corinthians 1:3-5. Paul declares “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble…..
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Gifted By the Will of God
2 Timothy begins with these words: “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord” (2 Tim. 1-2).
God’s will is expressed in two ways. First, Scripture is very clear…..