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Category: John

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  • Is Your Life Bearing Fruit, or are you just playing religion?

    Is Your Life Bearing Fruit, or are you just playing religion?

    Every October, I spend time in deep and prayerful evaluation. This is evaluation of my own ministry in the context God has me in and of the church or ministry God has us leading. This year, my evaluations lead me to John 15. I was wondering if it was even Biblical to do evaluations because…

  • God’s Grace Today

    God’s Grace Today

    Over the last two months we have had the opportunity to walk through John’s Gospel together, both in our personal worship times and as we have looked at specific passages together throughout the Gospel. We might remember that John wrote this Gospel in order to prove that Jesus is indeed God’s Messiah and our only…

  • Experiencing Joy

    Experiencing Joy

    Over the last two weeks, as we have walked through John’s Gospel together, Scripture has spoken some deep conviction into our lives. First, it has challenged us to genuinely make the instructions of Scripture a light for our path and to be absolutely hungry for the words that God has given to guide us in…

  • How to Stand on Christ’s Promises!

    How to Stand on Christ’s Promises!

    Let’s imagine together for a moment a great, tall mountain. At the top of this mountain is a place called Heaven, where God resides. Every person is at the bottom of the mountain trying to climb their way to the top. We have developed many religions, and some say that no matter which path we…

  • How Not to Engage the Bible

    How Not to Engage the Bible

    Before we begin, I have a news report regarding one of our sister-churches: RUSSELLVILLE, AR—Roughly half of the churchgoers at First Baptist Church Russellville died of starvation Sunday after the pastor tragically went 15 minutes over his standard sermon time, local sources confirmed. “We don’t know if the pastor simply lost track of time due…

  • The Blind Will See

    The Blind Will See

    Today, I am going to address how we ought to respond Biblically to our current political environment and there are a couple preliminary statements that I need to make before doing so. First, this is a time of Biblical exposition and not a time of political argumentation. During the course of our conversation, I will…

  • Christ and Old Testament Law

    Christ and Old Testament Law

    “If I am good enough, a good God would not condemn me.” I hear this type of statement quite often as I interact with people who have not believed specifically in Christ, and there are a couple problems with the statement. First of all, how are we to know what it means to be good?…

  • Finding Forever Satisfaction

    Finding Forever Satisfaction

    There is a really negative trend that has plagued the western world for at least one hundred years. We can recognize it plainly as we observe the things going on around us; and we can even see it in the church. It seems that even the people who claim to believe in Christ, don’t live…

  • What if we loved Christ?

    What if we loved Christ?

    In the Christian faith, we have this weird phrase that no one really understands. We say that people must be born again or be saved. There are a couple of questions that usually come up when we are speaking to someone who isn’t familiar with Christian lingo, or Christianeze. The first is this, “What am…

  • Christ’s Eternal Nature

    Christ’s Eternal Nature

    Darkness and light. We could think about the differences. Darkness obscures while light distinguishes. Darkness hides while light reveals. We relate darkness with cold and light with warmth. In the darkness we can hide our imperfections but we don’t know where we are stepping. It’s impossible to move forward and to grow more mature. In…