Tag: rewards in heaven
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The Christian Reward
Life is about investments. We invest in our work because we believe it worthwhile to earn a living. We invest part of that living in retirement funds, stocks, and bonds because we believe it worthwhile to plan ahead for our retirements. We invest in our education and the education of others because we believe it…
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What is Fasting? Why is fasting? Can You Ruin Your Witness?
In the previous section of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5), we saw that Jesus addressed six popular teachings that were contrary to the actual message of the Old Testament after committing verbally to remaining faithful to the Old Testament Scriptures. The major way in which the Old Testament was misused, according to Jesus’…
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The Worthless Person
Above all else, I think I fear worthlessness. I want my life to mean something in the grand scheme. I believe that worry is a sin and that we don’t accomplish anything by worrying, but if I am to be honest, I do sometimes worry that I might waste so much of my life away…
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Rewards and Sacrifice
When I was little, it was such a sacrifice for me to clean my room. I was so busy all of the time. I had school. I had to play video games. I had to practice machine pitch in the evenings. My mom made me go to church. I had to eat dinner. There was…
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What our world actually needs
In this world, we will give our lives to something. We will give our lives to education, to work, to family, to accomplishing our hopes and dreams. We might give our lives to our hobbies, to comfort, to money, to religion, to ideals or movements. We discovered previously that Christ actually desires that we be…
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Is my worship pleasing to God?
I like to think that I do a whole lot for my wife. I will wash the dishes (sometimes). I will take out the trash, mow the lawn, drive when she doesn’t want to and even kill the spiders that we find in the house. At home, there is still a shelf that needs to…
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Dear Collector Pt. 3: What about those Heavenly rewards?
So, in the last two explorations, we discovered that God may or may not have material blessing for us on this earth according to His will and for His honor and glory. Our responsibility, then is to steward what God does choose to give us for God’s glory and honor. Undoubtedly, each one of God’s…