Leviticus 26:1 ”Don’t make idols for yourselves; don’t set up an image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and don’t place a carved stone in your land that you can bow down to in worship. I am God, your God. What are the idols of your life? Job, money, relationship….etc Better yet, what are the things [...]
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Verse of Inspiration–acts 21:13 (obedience….a kingdom value) 13 But Paul wouldn’t budge: “Why all this hysteria? Why do you insist on making a scene and making it even harder for me? You’re looking at this backwards. The issue in Jerusalem is not what they do to me, whether arrest or murder, but what the Master Jesus [...]
Recieving the Holy Spirit…..the journey from your head to your heart
Posted: April 7, 2011 in discipleship, FaithActs 19:2 The first thing he said was, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart? Did he get inside you?” “We’ve never even heard of that-a Holy Spirit? God within us?” Being filled with the Holy [...]
Stupid is as Stupid does…….when it comes to worship
Posted: March 30, 2011 in discipleship, leadership, new churchVerse of Inspiration–Acts 15:25-26 (worship as freedom) 16:25 Along about midnight, Paul and Silas were at prayer and singing a robust hymn to God. The other prisoners couldn’t believe their ears.26 Then, without warning, a huge earthquake! The jailhouse tottered, every door flew open, all the prisoners were loose. It amazes me that so many [...]
On the “go” the role of the church in community
Posted: March 22, 2011 in discipleship, Faith, leadership“1 When they got to Iconium they went, as they always did, to the meeting place of the Jews and gave their message. The Message convinced both Jews and non-Jews-and not just a few, either.” When Paul and Barnabas head into town to begin to get the message of Jesus to the people they go [...]
S–Acts 13: 49 And this Message of salvation spread like wildfire all through the region.50 Some of the Jews convinced the most respected women and leading men of the town that their precious way of life was about to be destroyed. Alarmed, they turned on Paul and Barnabas and forced them to leave. h—the message [...]
Acts 8:4 Forced to leave home base, the followers of Jesus all became missionaries. Wherever they were scattered, they preached the Message about Jesus. The first missionaries became so because they were forced to leave their homes because they were followers of Jesus during the first great church persecution. These first missionaries were not graduating [...]
God’s home…..your life…living, breathing sanctuary
Posted: February 15, 2011 in discipleship, leadershipGod has a home on earth. His home is a sanctuary; a place set aside for Him to dwell within the world, a place that can house His Holiness, Honor, and Divinity. For the Israelites this was an actual construction of great detail that would ultimately result in the construction of the Temple. (ref Exodus [...]
In Acts 4 all the believers are together and praying. This results in a manifestation of the presence of God and everyone is filled with the Holy Spirit. The very next thing that happens is the affirmation that everyone was of “one heart and mind” and they held everything in common. In other words that [...]
Verse of Inspiration–Luke 10:20 (the great triumph) One key question that humanity has dealt with over time is why do bad, tragic things happen? Another question that simultaneously happens in regards to Jesus is why do followers of Jesus (if He has defeated evil) still experience these tragedies? A reality that we can be sure [...]
