Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. 1 Peter 2:18-22 – Another Pastor did not want to preach on this and preferred to skip it. What does Pastor Mike think about this. 2. Rev 14:6-11 – is taking the mark of the beast an unpardonable sin. Secondly, …
In light of Christ’s imminent return for his Church, Christians must be actively focused on prayer and God’s word, being careful not get entangled in the distracting sins of this world.
We will undoubtedly experience genuine grief if we truly understand the problem of sin and the consequences of rejecting Christ, yet it should also motivate us to continue to urgently and regularly share the gospel.
At Christmastime we ought do more than celebrate the incarnation, we should capitalize on this strategic season to prayerfully bring the good news of the gospel to the lost world around us.
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. How do we now think biblically about the Jewish people scattered around the world? 2. What is the difference between the 4 and 5 points of Calvinism? 3. How do we strike the biblical balance between doctrine and love? 4. …
We ought patiently endure this present age with great faith, confidently working and praying for God’s will in everything, always looking with hope for the return of Christ and the establishment of his kingdom.
We must be mature in our praying, not continuing to pray for just anything, but knowing that the call to persevere in prayer is qualified throughout the Bible by a number of wise and godly factors.
We will become more ambitious and more optimistic in our prayers and service for Christ as we learn to wholeheartedly trust him to accomplish through us the things that he has commanded.
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions from this service: 1. Deaths as a result of accidents – is this God’s will or not, even though God is sovereign? 2. Tribes of Israel – what people have melted into the lost tribes? 3. Matthew 18:20 – for where 2 or 3 …
Every Christian must sense the urgent need to give priority to their church by praying, serving, and working to expand its evangelistic impact on its community for Christ.
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions from Part 1: 1. Explain what praying in more detail looks like (in the case of praying for Revival). 2. When do you give up praying for the lost? 3. How can we be born in the image of God if we are sinners? …
Regardless of the answers to our prayers we must remember that God is infinitely good and loving toward his redeemed people, and that above all we have the promise of his Spirit in our lives.
We must remember that prayer is not an effort to overcome God’s unwillingness, but rather we pray persistently in faith to a good and generous God in hopes of advancing his good plans.
We can pray the powerful prayers of a righteous person that are spoken of in James 5:16 when we are careful to sincerely confess our sins and wholehearted turn from them.
Our praying for everyday needs and desires must be thoughtfully governed by a sense of God’s eternal agenda, remembering that all good things come from his strong and compassionate hand.
Healthy and productive churches must be resolute about living out God’s truth without compromise despite the threats or opposition from a hostile culture.
Prayer must be governed and influenced by the mindful and accurate understanding that God is transcendent and perfectly righteous.
We must see our need to improve our praying and resolve to do so by learning from the pattern and teaching of the fruitful and godly people of the Bible.
Jesus points out a few obvious yet easily forgotten realities which should drive us back to the urgency and the gravity of the task of preparing people for the arrival of Christ and his kingdom.
While our modern Christmas celebrations may increase problems and pressures, God’s Spirit can enable us to keep our hearts calm and focused on the incomparable value of knowing Christ.
We should learn from Christ’s compassion and selflessness, confident that he will provide what is needed when we sacrificially step up to face the challenges he providentially sets before us.
Christ at his first coming displayed his credentials as the King of the coming Kingdom by healing some people of their illnesses, in part to remind us that he will one day vanquish all disease.
We need to see all of our seemingly urgent concerns in light of the incomparable gift of God?s gracious forgiveness secured for us by the life and death of Christ.
We must see the surpassing importance of the obedience God asks of us compared to the relative unimportance of most of the personal things we ask of him.
Life will feel uncertain and perilous at times, but as Christians we must fix our focus on God, affirming his love for us in Christ and his good promises regarding our future.
We must be eager to fulfill our responsibility to materially and spiritual meet the needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
When we incessantly pray, we are able to transfer our trust to a powerful God who is eager to enable each Christian in our church to be vastly productive for his kingdom.
The Christian life requires a devotion to prayer and a resolve to fight all obstacles that stand in the way of regular, consistent and ardent praying.
As God’s children we are required to selflessly band together to support, encourage and strengthen one another when any of us are suffering, persecuted or attacked.
God forbids his people to be lazy and lethargic, instead he commands and enables us to always serve the body of Christ with zeal, passion and perseverance.