As we seek to eat well, stay properly hydrated, become more active and learn to get better sleep, let us never forget where the power to choose these healthier decisions come from. Our own individual will power can take us only so far. We need Christ…and my Friends, we need…
Number three: follow Jesus…why? Because Jesus is the only one who lived on this earth and fought sin till the end. He never gave into sin, even though in His humanity, He could have chosen to do so. Hebrews 12:4 puts it this way; “In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.” Jesus, on the other hand, did. Imagine with…
Our cross represents our fallen nature and all of the sinfulness that comes from it. It is that MMI attitude we inherited as broken humans and all the selfishness that results. It is the way we used to live apart from Christ, and still do when we…
There seems to be three powerful steps, one that builds upon the next, that will help us receive more of the Freedom so that we can, not only know the right things to do, but then actually do them. These steps help us say NO to Pride, and YES to Humility, so that we will…
Part of this Abundant Life is the tension we should be feeling every day as a Christian. This tension involves that Pride versus Humility we talked about last week. Pride is based on the enemy’s fallen nature which he is still trying to…
For those of you not familiar with the process of Sanctification, understand it is like going to school. As we “graduate” from one grade to the next, we have hopefully proven that we have mastered the subjects at that level and are ready to…
So I was going to move on to the pillar called Microbiome this week, but I can sense God working on me to go deeper into this “why we do not do what we know we should” thing. If Pride is what keeps us from doing what we know we should do, and Humility is the Solution, how do we move…
