When it comes to doctrines like the Rapture, what we need to walk away is the comfort in knowing that this is not the only life there is, and that as a believer, I have a living Savior Who is strongly intent in coming back for me, and that He is going to give me a permanent home in Heaven one day.
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Preaching to a Pioneer Church
Paul was a church planter. He was used of God to start many pioneering works. He had both the advantage and disadvantage of preaching a message that had never been heard before (outside the original 12 apostles): The Gospel of Jesus Christ. And he was preaching this message to a largely pagan world.
How to Pioneer a Church
Paul’s strategy naturally assumed that the people in the works he established would actively propagate the message. Biblically, it is the duty of every believer to do the work of an evangelist.
Who Is This Proverbs 31 Lady, Anyway?
For this series I am going to put up a post at the end of each month until I am done looking at the Proverbs 31 Lady, because her passage appears at the end of Proverbs and if you’re reading a Proverb a day, you get to read about this lady at the end of … Continue reading Who Is This Proverbs 31 Lady, Anyway?
More Than Seedlings Part 4 – Clarity of Purpose
The Lord wants Christians who are constants in a changing world.
More Than Seedlings Part 3 – Having Faith with Deep Roots
What Christ wants is a church full of believers with deep roots, not just so they can stand for themselves, but so they can be a blessing to others.
More Than Seedlings – Part 2: Not Faith That is Impossible, Faith the Does the Impossible
Contemplating the greatness of God is not separate from our dealings with a difficult world. We deal with our difficult world through the power of an omnipotent God.
More Than Seedlings – Part 1: Making a Difference by Being Different
What God wants from His followers is maturing Christians.
Acts on Prayer: What They Never Prayed For
It seems that when you look at the prayer life of the church in Acts, the focus was never on the temporal. It was always on the eternal.
Acts on Prayer — Praying Through the Pain
Life is tougher than football.
Grace in Waves 