As with your natural family, there will be quarrels in the church family; we will offend each other as we exercise ourselves in church life. The one thing that I have observed in all my years is how poorly offenses are handled in churches, even in doctrinally sound churches. I’ve always had these thoughts, and I want to share them… bear with me. For the offended… “Now if your brother sins...
”Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person. The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.”Genesis 2:7-8 We were not made to sit on our hands. Doing things is in our nature; soon after Adam...
“There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want. The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.” Proverbs 11:24-25 I read the above passage multiple times– during my time of reading a chapter of Proverbs a day– and it has really stayed with me. It has been applied...
My observation of you and conversations with you the last time we were together have prompted me to write you this letter. Before I go on, I need you to know that my aim is not to be judgmental; I am writing this because of the love I have for you and the fear and sadness that your ignorance of these things causes me. As a professing Christian, you should know: Christian worship is different from...
There is no room for excusing sin in our lives, not if we really are God’s children. Getting angry in traffic and thinking bad thoughts, saying abusive words, or making abusive gestures is sin.
You cannot put stock in fleeting things when your Father- who is omnipotent has asked you to bring everything that worries you to him