“Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?” ~ Galatians 3:3 The foundation of the new life is this: Jesus has sent His Spirit to live inside the believer. In Galatians, Paul was arguing against teachers who instructed believers that the ability to “live right” …
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Eleven Days or Forty Years?
Can it take 40 years to complete an 11-day journey? It will when any people refuses to trust God. The result is that forward movement towards spiritual maturity gives way to a wandering, aimless existence. “It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Now it came to pass …
His Cross, My Victory
if His cross is the only victory I experience in this life it is more than enough to satisfy my deepest longings now and for all eternity none of my losses and defeats no matter how painful or shameful to me can withstand the boundless oceans of mercy still flowing from His triumph over the …
He is Ready to Forgive
When He died...I did not exist... except in His mind. I was just another unborn sinner with a lifetime of future offenses. But I was known. He knew the lost and broken soul. And He was ready to forgive my sins before I had done any of them... on the morning I first drew breath... …
Day 25: Counting Down to the Christmas Revolution
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and …
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Chosen
Romans 8:15-16 "For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God” How can I know for certain that I am a Christian? God wants …
Finding Your Spiritual Home
Read Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Children shouldn’t have been throwing the ball in the church’s fellowship hall downstairs, but they were… and the inevitable happened: striking the wall by accident, the boys left a small, indented “crater.” One of the older men came in the next morning with his tools, calling out to me as he …
The Problem of Counterfeit Christianity
Read Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Walking in the hot summer sun, we were enjoying a wilderness hike near a saltwater marsh in south Louisiana. Suddenly my son Jonathan was crying out, “It moved! It moved!” I looked up and he was dancing in circles about 15 yards ahead of us. Running to his aid, I arrived …
Safe in Jesus?
Read 1 John 5:9-13 As a group of young, neighborhood friends, we were playing a fierce game of tag, running through backyards and between houses. I was being hotly pursued, when I sped around the corner of a house and saw him: a huge, tethered dog staring at me from a back patio! He barked …
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