Let Us also Walk in The Spirit

Gal 5:16-25. The key to the Christian life is learning to yield to the Indwelling Spirit in us. Many Christians wrestle with the passions, cravings, and desires of sin, trying to get victory in their own strength, but we are told that if we walk in the Spirit, we will not fulfill the lusts of […]

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The Law vs The Promise

Gal 3:15-29. What purpose does the law serve? If the blessing to Abraham is by promise and justification is by faith, then why does the law do? Paul teaches here that the law reveals our sin and need that we would come to Christ by faith. 

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5 Questions to Help Understand Grace

Gal 3:1-5. The false teachers (Judaizers) in Galatia were challenging Paul’s gospel of grace. Paul masterfully asks the Galatians 5 rhetorical questions, relating to their own experience, that vindicate the grace gospel. What personal experience do we have to show how the grace gospel holds up?

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The Day You Heard the Grace of God

Colossians 1:3-8. Do you remember the day you first heard about grace? When it became clear and you really understood it? How powerful that day was. Even within the 4 walls of some churches today people have not heard “the word of the truth of the gospel”. Oh we are thankful for the gospel of […]

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Not Settling for a Common Life

Gen 28:12-19. How easy it is to live a natural life and to settle only for the earthly. But we are designed for more than that. We have a heavenly and holy calling. Jacob renamed LUZ to be called BETHEL, calling a common place Holy. We must learn to do the same.

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A Renewed Hope for a New Year

Ezek 37:11-12, Job 14:7-9. We do not know what the future holds, but we know him who holds the future. Though there may be much fear and uncertainty in these strange days, the Christian is given a living hope through the promises, both for this life and beyond.

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Lead Me to The Rock that is Higher than I

Ps 62:1-8. Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the situations that life brings? Or feel a bit lost or discouraged? In this treasured psalm, David was feeling extremely weighed down and overwhelmed and looks to His God. Consider this model prayer on how to find The Lord in such difficult times. 

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The Prayer of Jabez

1 Chron 4:9-10. Jabez was a man who had pain associated with his name. There was something that had happened in his past that he had no control over. This threatened to affect his whole life, yet we read that Jabez turned out to be an honourable man and rose above that name, his past, […]

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Empty Nets & A Lesson for Life

John 21:1-14. These were experienced fishermen. If there was one area of expertise these men had, it was how to fish in Galilee and yet, after fishing all night, they came back with empty nets. Have you ever come back with empty nets? Went out with confidence, experience, expectation, and yet come back empty? Perhaps […]

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Jericho’s Walls & Rahab’s Faith

Heb 11:30-31.Josh 6:1-25. The author of Hebrews tells us that the Jericho walls came tumbling down because of faith. Yes, it was by the power and the grace of God, nevertheless, the people’s faith is instrumental in this event. How many times in our own lives may the presence or absence of a living faith […]

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