Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Character

Christian character is the characteristics of a Christian striving to follow Christ’s example.

Being Examples

JOHN 13:14-15 – If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”   THEME OF THE DAY. BEING EXAMPLES.  It overwhelms us.  It did the disciples.  To observe the Creator of all things…

Trust and Obey

JOHN 13:1-7 – Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,…

Two Signs of a Healthy Spiritual Life

  MATTHEW 5:2-11 – And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall…

The Greatest Motivator For Obeying God

JOHN 14:21 – Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”   THEME OF THE DAY. THE GREATEST MOTIVATOR FOR OBEYING GOD.  Obeying God.  In those two words is the summary of all things.  Angels obey…

Doing the Hard Work of Heart Work

PROVERBS 4:23 – Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”   THEME OF THE DAY. DOING THE HARD WORK OF HEART WORK.  The hardest work in the Christian life is heart work. Though our lives have been radically changed by Jesus Christ and God has given us a new heart to know Him, there are…

The Importance of our Unity

JOHN 17:20–23 – “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have…