For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about ‘how to be blessed’ as a church … and asking questions like: What kind of a church will God bless? What do we need to be about, as a church, in order to be recipients of God’s blessing? Last week, one of the things we talked about needing to do was this: We need to be ‘devoted’ to God’s word. And God’s word is full of ways to receive God’s blessing. We can know how … and that’s what we’re...
Folks, as we move to the very last chapter of Hebrews, we continue to be blessed by a God who loves us! Let me remind you of what we’ve learned together this summer. What has God done for us in the past? What is God doing for us today? And what will God be doing for us in the future? Our God is a God who has given us… HIS WORD … and JESUS as the perfect Messenger… REST … as only God can give… Jesus as a HIGH PRIEST...
What is it in your life today that seems absolutely impossible? If you have any thought or any circumstance that seems impossible today, that folks is right up God’s alley… Let me begin today by saying this: As long as we honor God … nothing is impossible! And how do we honor God with our lives? Through obedience to what God calls us to do—by honoring God in all that we do… Let me share with you a story from the Old Testament—an incident in the life of a lesser-known...
Last week, we talked about this biblical guideline for worship: true worshipers will worship God in spirit (heart) and in truth. Jesus said to the Samaritan woman that this is the kind of worship God is looking for … and it begins with hearts that have turned toward God… If we are not willing to turn our hearts toward God—fully, we’ll never know the kind of relationship (or worship) that God so desperately wants us to have! That’s where it begins. And once we’ve turned our hearts over to God,...