Imagine this: a husband wants to show his wife how much he loves her, so he buys her things: jewelry, flowers, candy, lots of little gifts of things he thinks are cute. He loves to shop; he has the money so he buys her more. The wife is a minimalist. She hates junk, doesn’t like […]
Category Archives: Discipleship
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Gen. 1:3 Earthly life can be dark and confusing. We stumble and don’t know what to do. We get confused and yell out of frustration. We fight with our words because we think that’s the only way to get our way. Darkness is over the […]
Following is a collection of verses and quotes on Lent. No matter what our church background, as the first quote says it is a great time to trim the sludge from our life and souls. No matter how we practice it, a time to focus on our growth in discipleship benefits us all and demonstrates […]
I was at a Bible study last night and among other things, we were discussing the importance of sharing God’s Words with each other—literally, God’s Words—the Bible, the Word, the truth in it. As I woke up this morning I was reminded of Mal. 3:16-18 Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. […]
After getting to something about God, people often ask “What does God want me to do?” That’s a great question and in many ways is easier to find out answers that it first seems. Part of finding the answers has to do with the topic of what some church all “Spiritual Discernment.” Big term, but […]
In our study of discernment, of how to make the right decisions in the midst of the spiritual warfare that rages around us, this week we looked at discerning theological systems. Here is the questions we looked at: Question: [following a lesson taught] “God knows who is going to be saved and who isn’t. So were […]
In the last couple of days I’ve received a number of very good questions from people in the class asking about Lent. One of the best ways to answer the question is through an article I did for my church communications ministry. I’ve reprinted a slightly revised version of that below, along with downloadable PDFs […]
Intro note: I put this together about 3 years ago and though most of the links are good, as I’m doing a quick clean up of this site before changing the template I didn’t have time to check them all out so please forgive me, also PLEASE add additional resources in the comments section–I know […]
This is part of a question that was asked in our Coastline Life in 3D class and we answer it in the video below with information from both the Bible and church history. Our actions can have a tremendous impact on our world. We tend to live out what we believe and as you’ll see […]
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