Christian Growth
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Don’t knock other believers off course on their mission (Mt 16:13-23)
The Christian life is often tough because God has called us to live opposite the world and our sin nature. That is His life calling to us … to pick up our cross and…
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Jesus response at His ‘trial’ explains He’s more than the Savior (Mt 26:62-64)
During Jesus’ trial the high priest questioned Him about whether He was the Messiah or not. At first Jesus gave no answer but when the high priest charged Him under oath to God to…
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God understands your weaknesses – forgive yourself when you’ve repented (Heb 4:15-16; Mt 26:41)
Even as born-again believers in Jesus Christ we still sin often. Sadly, when we do, we are often harder on ourselves for our failures than we should be. Yes, we should not be pleased…
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Your spiritual clothes (Zech 3:1-5)
We’re going back to the minor prophets today folks and will look at one of the most important scenes in the entire Bible (in my opinion): Then he showed me Joshua the high priest…
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Build a solid life foundation by applying God’s Word (Mt 7:24-27)
Yesterday we talked about reading the Bible. Today, we’re going to talk about living by it. Reading it is good but applying it is what we need to do. Look how Jesus ended the…
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Read and know the Bible – Jesus expects that (Mt 22:31)
“… haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God” (Mt 22:31) I want to make a strong suggestion…please read the Bible every day. It is God’s Word written to you. This is…
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God’s Word matters more than your will (Mt 26:36-54)
I was out for a walk the other day and praying. God showed me something I knew already, but He showed it to me in a way that drove it deeper into my heart.…
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Focus on your eternal future, especially when things are tough (Heb 6:13-20)
I want to follow up on yesterday’s theme of holding fast with a similar idea from Hebrew 6: 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom…
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Hold ‘fast’ to the Bible and Jesus (Dt 10:20; Heb 10:23; 1 Thes 5:21)
The Bible speaks of holding ‘fast’ to your confession of hope, what is good, what you have in Christ, and God Himself. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for…
