Hi Friends,
Last week, we ended with Jesus, once again, pointing to the Faith of a child as the standard for our entrance into Heaven. He encourages all His disciples to become childlike. There is a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. One learns to live by Faith, trusting the Father. The other acts like a…
Wanting to be His disciple. This is how we started our conversation this week, and this is how I would like to end it. It is the key to the Abundant Life. The lives you and I lived apart from Christ, were…
When others see our peace and joy that comes from learning to be content right where we are, and even in the midst of whatever is happening around us, it is a powerful…
So once we begin to want to be His disciple out of gratitude over what Jesus has already done for us, once we begin to lean on the Holy Spirit so we can…
Part of our “cross to bear” is this immature nature of ours which causes us to struggle when it comes to following Christ. As I said yesterday, sometimes we can deny ourselves, but sometimes the temptation gets the better of us. It is not that God will not…
When we get this, that we are now His student, we begin to be transformed into His likeness. How? The first step is to deny ourselves. I think too many of us misread that as…
I have said so many times, and will continue to proclaim, a Christian is not just someone who says they believe in Jesus. A Christian is someone who…