After service this morning, someone shared with me what would bring them the greatest happiness (Biblical definition) or blessing. It would be that their loved ones would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ the Lord. This is what they would place in the bag I shared in Sunday’s sermon. This dovetails with… Continue Reading It’s in the bag – or is it?
Living your own truth would be a great thing if it was possible to establish and determine unchanging, absolute truth for yourself. But Jesus didn’t affirm your ability to determine truth because He knows we are all flawed individuals, which means we don’t always get it all right. What we want to claim as our… Continue Reading Time for a change?
Believing in yourself is something Jesus never said. Looking inside yourself for the answers to the big questions of life (who am I, why am I here, where am I going, how does all this end) will be a fruitless search. In the same way, looking inside yourself for answers to the guilt, shame and… Continue Reading Who to believe in: a matter of life and death
We are told today to “be true to yourself.” Yet this is never the counsel of Jesus. In preparing to preach through this for Sunday, I looked for a guide to “be true to yourself.” And what I found is that there are so many of these guides. One of them gives a six-step process… Continue Reading Be true to yourself – through Christ
An idol is anything (attitude, person, thing) that we allow to pre-empt our worship of God. An idol is anything we chase for our satisfaction and purpose in life more than God. So we need to ruthlessly and completely tear down and eliminate any idols that are in our lives or that we are tempted… Continue Reading Idols will not lead you to God — only back toward bondage
