Spiritual Growth
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The Need for Reminders
To forget is a tendency of being human. The condition of forgetfulness can be frustrating and even embarrassing at times. We forget items on a shopping list, stickers or tags on new clothes, to check the mail, to turn the light off, special occasions, appointments and even people’s names. There are many things that we do so as to help us remember. We write post it…
Love Recovered
© Thomas Kinkade ~ Streams of Living Water Out of His great love for this church that abandoned their first love, the Lord Jesus offers the solution to their problem. This is a great act of grace and reveals to us His great care and concern for His bride (cf. Eph. 5:25-27). This provides us with a good lesson on how to graciously confront sin. Consider His counsel to the…
Love Abandoned
© pixel974 – Fotolia.com Love is a very important truth taught in the Scriptures. John wrote the profound words “God is love” (1 John 4:8) and this great love of God was put on most beautiful display when the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross as a substitute for His people. The Scripture says, “but God shows his love for us in that while we…
Would you be holy? Advice from J C Ryle*
Would you be holy? Would you become a new creature? Then you must begin with Christ. You will do just nothing at all, and make no progress — until you feel your sin and weakness, and flee to Him. He is the root and beginning of all holiness — and the way to be holy, is to come to Him by faith and be joined to Him. Christ is not wisdom and righteousness only to…
What is the Will of God? Principle 8: Submission
After we follow all the principles we are to submit ourselves to God’s Providence. Even though God grants us great liberty in making any decision we want (as long as it conforms to His Word), we need to recognise that sometimes our decisions are not actually God’s will. What must we do…
What is the Will of God? Principle 7: Satisfaction
After you have carefully followed the previous six principles (Salvation, Scripture, Service, Supplication, Seeking Wise Counsel, Sound Judgment), what is next? I believe that if the six principles previously mentioned are followed, then we can ask ourselves the question, “what is my…
Life and Temptation
Life is filled with temptations. These temptations can be small and they can be substantial. Temptation that you experience may be a real trial for you, but for others it may be merely trivial, and vice versa. What is it that causes such a struggle within us when it comes to temptation? It would be easy a natural tendency of people is to shift the blame away from…