Our church is going through a church-wide campaign called, “r12 – True Spirituality According to Jesus.” This has the potential to transform people who simply profess Christ or attend church into authentic followers of Jesus; true disciples. I was reading the September 13, 2011 Barna report on American Christians and the lack of spiritual depth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul’s next stop in Ephesus (Acts 19:1) seemed to display an extra measure of God’s power. It appears that on this third missionary journey God used special demonstrations of power to authenticate His messages and ministers (Acts 19:11). The first story is theologically interesting since it appears Paul encounters some disciples that believed yet had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing this series in the life of Paul, after the stoning of Stephen, Paul began new threats against the followers of Christ (Acts 9:1-2) so he might jail them of kill them. This is the chapter where Jesus gets to Paul and reaches him with the life-changing message of the gospel. If you’re like me, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the centuries, many believers, overcome by an awareness of their own sins, have found hope and comfort in the words of the penitential (confession) psalms. The psalmists shared with God the depth of their sorrow and repentance of their sin, told of the joy of being forgiven. They rejoiced that God would respond to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John the Baptist came preaching about a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and he did not win many friends among the Pharisees (Mark 1:4, 5, Luke 3:7-8). Luke 7:30 tells us that the Pharisees rejected God’s purpose for themselves; now that’s taking your destiny into your own hands. They were hard-hearted and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was reading a blog recently and the author posed this question, “Have you ever felt like God made a mistake?” Well, the Bible does record that He was sorry for ever creating mankind in the first place (Genesis 6:6-7, see also Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:11, Jeremiah 26:3). Sin sorrows God who is holy, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These are notes for my Bible study class on Sunday mornings at 9:45, a book called Downpour by James MacDonald. Today we will look at five marks of genuine repentance. What is repentance? Repentance is the funnel through which all personal revival flows. After we have seen God’s holiness and been brought to a place […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
"The biggest deterrent to growth in most churches is lack of confidence in God's supernatural power to grow His church. We are obsessed with our own responsibility to find resources for growth. When our natural resources seem limited, our vision shrinks and we accept mediocrity. We can't grow the church, but God can! We don't have the resources, but He does! "
(Ken Hemphill, Revitalizing the Sunday Morning Dinosaur)
"However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace." (Acts 20:24)
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