Learning From People Who Are Great Examples

If you’ve never had a mentor or someone to look up to, you’re probably missing a lot and I would advise you to start searching for someone who is a great example and can provide you with the ability to have a better life. These people can be located at work, on the Internet, within your family and even at your place of worship. They’re usually not hard to find and once you find one, you need to start acting like a sponge and your going to start absorbing the water of wisdom.

Psalm 114 – Testimony of Presence & Deliverance

Universally a hymn, this psalm is quite unlike the vast majority of psalms which speak about personal or communal lament, grief, joy, thanksgiving and praise. But it is incredibly fluent and graphically resplendent in situating for today’s reader the glorious works of the LORD God in history.

The Will of God Will Never Place You Where the Grace of God Cannot Keep You – A Lesson For Leaders!

That was such a close thing in Corinth. It happened in the life of a leader; in the life of one of the greatest missionaries and pioneers the Church of Jesus Christ has ever seen.

Complete In Him – Humility

Humility has different meaning depending on who is defining the concept and from which angle is he/she looking at it. Humility has been defined as a prominent Christian grace or better still a state of mind well pleasing to God. Humility is said to preserves the soul from tranquility and makes us plant under trials.

Negative Emotions Are Vitally Important!

Negativity; what does it really mean to you? How did you arrive at your particular definition of negativity? Did someone else establish the perimeter or were you able to decide for yourself how and in what measure negativity affects you?

Do All You Possibly Can to Make Wise Investments Whenever You Can – There Are Rewards and Dividends

Can you try to imagine what it must have been like to have a teacher like Paul, that man who was Saul of Tarsus, teaching you for around a year and a half? When a much loved and favourite Professor retired at New College, Edinburgh, Scotland, the following year’s students were really quite disappointed. Having had the privilege of sitting under the authoritative and comprehensive teaching of James S. Stewart for two years, I can understand how these other men felt.

Six Tips For Debriefing a Summer Missions Team

Summer missions trips have become routine events in many church calendars, but could your church’s missions program be improved? Returning Summer Mission’s teams offer great input in answering that question. As the saying goes, “Hindsight is 20/20.” Good debriefing helps pastors turn hindsight into foresight for the next year’s programs. Here are six great ideas to enhance your debriefing of returning short term missions participants.

Complete In Him – Forgiveness Of Sins

Forgiveness of sins is reciprocal, meaning that if you forgive others’ sins, you will receive forgiveness of your sins from God. Forgiveness of sins is one of the constituent parts of jurisdiction. In pardoning sins, God absolves the sinner from the condemnation of the law. Forgiveness of sins rests on the account of the work Christ wherein he removes the guilt of sins or the sinners’ actually liability to eternal wrath and woes. This was done when he cried in a loud voice on the cross, IT IS FINISHED!

Is God Alive?

Well, God is not dead, but neither is he particularly alive as we know it. The deeper question is: “What does it mean to be alive?” Psychologists, biologists and computer programmers debate this question. (Philosophers debate a similar question: “What does it mean to exist?”) Unfortunately, they’re not very successful at coming up with a useful answer.

Are You Living Your Words, Or the Word?

If we say that we are following Christ but our actions say otherwise, we are deceived. Read this thought provoking article for more.

Joy With a Seriously Reflective Twist! Psalm 95

Psalm 95 is wedged in amongst a special group of psalms which laud the LORD God for his great works and nature. It starts out joyously, celebrating God for just some of these great attributes; but in its ending there’s a sharp and somber (and very important) reminder.

How Long Does God Really Want Me to Try?

The Holy Spirit has been working through me for many years and I really want to know how long, God really want me to try? How long does he want me to try to get Christians to think and understand Christianity? I’m doing the best that I can and as long as God is working through me, I will try to do better.