For the past weeks I’ve been reading the book of Revelation. I currently finished chapter 17 moments before typing this post. It’s crazy, there is just so much that I don’t understand about this book. Tragic events, glorious moments, and incomprehensible instances are recorded for us to read. Honestly, I can get caught up in my confusion and miss the importance of the one thing I actually understand from this book.
Continue reading “What I Understand”Faith Means Action
You’ve often heard the phrase “love is action,” but I’d go a step farther and say that faith is action too. So many people like to throw around the phrase “I’ve got faith.” Even some secular songs speak of having faith. Yet, not everyone who flippantly uses the phrase has faith. Thus, the question must be asked, how can you tell if a person has faith?
Continue reading “Faith Means Action”Does It Change You?
Continue reading “Does It Change You?”For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
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Not Even Adequate
Continue reading “Not Even Adequate”Now we have such confidence in God through Christ. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:4-6
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Words Can Kill
Continue reading “Words Can Kill”From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters. A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it? Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. James 3:10-12
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Who Will You Serve?
Continue reading “Who Will You Serve?”For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14
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The Only Way
Continue reading “The Only Way”Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
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Trust in the Lord
Continue reading “Trust in the Lord”Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
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Is God in It?
Continue reading “Is God in It?”“So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing, but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God.” Acts 5:38-39
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Honesty Is the Best Policy
Continue reading “Honesty Is the Best Policy”Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. Luke 16:10
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