Disciple-Making Movement From my last post, I wrote about our duty to Jesus to be makers of disciples. Perhaps you’ve heard of or are participating in the Disciple Making Movement. Outside of the United States, DMM has experienced astounding results. In this post, I’m just going to provide an abbreviated synopsis. To do a deep …
In Monday’s post, It’s About Faith, we considered faith’s merit, faith’s purpose, and faith’s condition and test. And in Wednesday’s post, Faith Comes from God, we considered faith’s attributes and learned that faith comes from God. Today we will learn about faith’s good news. Faith’s result When we look back on the history of the Church, we …
In the previous post, “It’s About Faith,” we considered faith’s merit, faith’s purpose, and faith’s condition and test. Today, we will consider faith’s attributes and learn that faith comes from God. Faith’s size From what Jesus said in Matthew 17:20, faith has the characteristic of amount or quantity. Jesus told us that even the smallest …
Today’s post is about faith. Actually, this week’s posts are about faith. There is no purpose for faith if the faith God gives us isn’t first used to receive God’s salvation through faith in Jesus. For guidance for salvation, click here: Salvation Faith’s merit We have no hope without faith (Hebrews 11:1). We cannot be …
If the Bible reveals God’s will for me to do something, then I need to get off my backside and do it. If He’s already said it, he will not likely show me a sign or write it in the sky. “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” …
“Daddy, if God loves us, why does He hide?” I asked my dad when I was young. I don’t remember Dad’s answer but, knowing him, he gave me a thorough, accurate, and theologically correct answer. But, sometimes, we don’t need an expansive answer articulated to us. Instead, we need something we can grab on and …
Why are you and I atheists? Well, we are unbelievers in the things people of the New Normal put their faith in. For example, science is not our god. Science is magnificent at discovering what God created, but as a religion it lacks cohesion and astonishes in its instability. We don’t worship humanity. We love …
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.” Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David. 2 Samuel 5:6-7 (ESV) …
It is common for people, even Godly people, to condemn brothers or sisters in Christ if a worldly institution condemns them.
We must open ourselves up to God for His healing to enter us, and for our praise to go to Him.
