We celebrate Thanksgiving this month. So, here’s a Thanksgiving passage from Scripture for you to consider as you gather to give thanks with your family and friends. “Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thess. 5:16-18). This Thanksgiving there are three things …
God Love Sex (Part 2)
Leadership Magazine commissioned a poll of a thousand pastors. The pastors indicated that 12 percent of them had committed adultery while in the ministry – (one out of eight pastors) – and that 23 percent had done something they considered sexually inappropriate. Christianity Today surveyed a thousand of its subscribers who were not pastors and found the figure to …
God Loves Sex (Part 1)
The world we live in is obsessed with sex. It’s willing to consume anything about sex put on film or in books or on the internet – and it’s never satisfied. It’s always hungry for more. Sex scandals – both inside the Church and out – are everywhere. Our world is obsessed with sex![1] In …
“Tax the Rich!”
In March 2024, a news outlet reported on a developing story entitled, “Boston Activists Demand $15 billion in Reparations, Urging White Churches to Pay Up and Atone for Slavery.” The Boston Reparations Task Force proposed a three-fold payment plan. The plan includes $5 billion in cash payments to Boston’s Black residents, $5 billion to invest …
How to Grow a Loving Church – Loving Unbelievers (Part 2)
In Romans 12 Paul gets very practical about our relationships with other believers AND even with non-believers – especially with difficult people. And the basis for all of those relationships, Paul says, is LOVE. When followers of Christ begin to really love each other the way God wants them, the world will be attracted to …
How to Grow a Loving Church (Part 1)
In Romans 12 Paul gets very practical about our relationships with other believers AND even with non-believers – especially with difficult people. And the basis for all of those relationships, Paul says, is LOVE. When followers of Christ begin to really love each other the way God wants them, the world will be attracted to …
“God is Life” – 1 John 5:4-21
John ends the last chapter in his first letter to show us how “God is LIFE.” He says that we can know that God is life when three things are operating in our lives. The FIRST thing that proves that God’s Life is working in us is: Our Undying FAITH. “For everyone who has been …
God is Love (Part Three) – 1 John 4:1-5:3
OK…that was the first three effects of the love of God in our life. Here’s the… FOURTH effect of the love of God is our lives: It distinguishes between TRUTH and ERROR. John 4:1-6: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets …
God Is Love – Part Two (1 John 3:19-24)
So far, we’ve seen in 1 John 3:14-18, the evidence of God’s love (LIFE) and the essence of God’s love (ACTION). In this blog, we’re going to see the effect of God’s love. What John does for the remainder of chapter three all the way to verse three of chapter 5 (1 John 3:19-5:3) is …
