The Balance of Biblical Love
Biblical love is not sentimentality. Real love is sold out to the good of others for God’s sake and it doesn’t avoid what’s hard it if it is truly what’s best.
1 Corinthians
Get Ready
Maintaining and sustaining your progress in the Christian life will require vigilance, tenacity and love – without them you are vulnerable to costly setbacks!
Your Spiritual Gardeners
God has called us to honor those who invest in our spiritual lives. It is a dishonor to God when we take our “spiritual gardeners” for granted. We must care for them!
Making Sure God is in the Adjustments
When we encounter options in our planning or a crossroads in our lives we must prayerfully consider a series of biblical questions that will help us make the best possible choice – because God’s kids cannot afford to make thoughtless decisions!
Being More Intentional About Your Life
As God’s Children (called by God to do good) we ought to be intentional about our lives, planning to do good while always distinguishing between God’s opposition and someone else’s.
The Them Project
Like the Corinthian Christians, God has called PCCrs to a specific project at this point in our history, one that must never be divorced from its purpose and must never be confused with fund raising techniques.
A Closer Look at Post-Resurrection Life
We should be motivated to live for Christ and his agenda now because he has such a great and awesome future planned for us when we are resurrected!
Guarding Our Hope in a World That Doesn’t Have It
We must be intentional in guarding our confidence in what God has revealed in his word, screening our input and avoiding the incessant flow of error that comes from the world’s opinion.
Living In Light of Christ’s Victory Over Death
Our future resurrection (guaranteed by Christ’s) should motivate us with a confident, positive and reverent attitude toward the Victor over death!
Conquering Death…It’s the Whole Point
Our future hope (a tangible resurrected bodily existence in the coming age) is based on the historical reality of Christ’s tangible, bodily resurrection. We must wholeheartedly confirm this fact and let I motivate us as we live each day in light of our future.
A Few Preliminaries When Talking About Life After Death
Death, both spiritual & physical, was a lamentable intrusion on mankind – one that God powerfully rectified and now provides us with a solution in Christ!
A Brief Study of When God Breaks the Rules He Made
God’s breaking of natural law is not the norm, nor should it be our expectation We should expect his intervention within the laws he made, not in the way he did for the prophets for whom he was verifying his new revelation.
A Closer Look at New Testament Churches without New Testaments
Great care, sobriety and thanksgiving should mark the proclamation and reception of God`s instructions for our lives.
Examining the Role of Tongues in the Bible
The Corinthian “tongues” display should be an obvious sign that something is seriously wrong, especially against the backdrop of true missionary oriented tongues.
The Problem with Corinthian (& Californian) Styled Tongues
We must carefully examine 1 Corinthians 14 to discover (and avoid) the damaging problems related to the kind of “tongues” phenomenon practiced in the church of Corinth.
Reaffirming God’s Word as Our Ultimate Authority
As the years & experience pas in the Christian life we must be careful to reaffirm the fact that everything we believe & everything we do is subject to God`s objective word!
A Lifelong Quest
I ought to assess myself by the progress I show in humbly loving others, because most everything else I do will one day become irrelevant.
In Search of a Divine Motive
We must resolve to rely on God to replicate God’s merciful and gracious love toward imperfect people.
Weeding Out the Bad Stuff
To be motivated by God’s love will require a serious resolve to fight our natural tendencies to put ourselves first and be intolerant of others.
Don’t Have Breakfast Without It
God wants his kids to be motivated by his kind of committed and selfless love as we go about serving one another in the body of Christ.
Keeping Myself in Perspective as I Serve God’s People
God Expects us to watch our attitude as we minister to his people, so that we won`t ever quit or become haughty in our quest to serve the bride of Christ.
Zeroing In on God’s Task for Me Right Now
God has called each of us to get to work to make this outpost of Christ’s church great world history hinges on it!
Staying Focused on the Reason God Has Me Here
We ought to remain focused on God’s agenda to love and serve his people by enthusiastically embracing our role as his tools.
Rethinking God’s New Plan for My New Life
God has an important and fulfilling plan to utilize each of us in this world and in his church and that looks a lot better than the futile life we led before Christ.
Avoiding the High Costs of Selfishness
We must learn to decipher whether a painful experience is God’s discipline, if so, let’s quickly respond and be thankful for God’s loving correction.
The Thankful Focus of a Healthy Church
We ought to always remember the incredibly high price paid for our forgiveness and live compassionately and gratefully in light of it.
The Problem of Me-ism in the Church
God has called us to focus on Christ when we meet to worship, which always includes selflessly serving his children.
What God Expects from Women
God has called women to a distinct and feminine role in life; fulfill it and affirm it even when it’s not popular.
What God Expects from Men
God has called men to a distinct and masculine role in life; fulfill it and affirm it even when it’s not popular.
The Unwavering Focus of People Who Win
In summing up controversial matters keep focused on glorifying God, helping people and following godly examples.