Category: Faith
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How do we respond?
When God’s word reveals a truth to us, what we determine in our hearts to do with it is incredibly revealing of what we truly believe; especially if God’s truth threatens our wants, desires, or even our power. The religious leaders in Jerusalem faced the same challenges when it came to Jesus’s teachings that we…
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Are we listening?
When Jesus responds to people, it is often easy to see how His answers could be misconstrued, misunderstood, or even misinterpreted. After all, if He is speaking to us to correct our behavior, no one readily signs up for that! Further, sometimes we can fall into the trap of seeking God’s response but we have…
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What do you allow?
Hypocrisy is one of the most repeated struggles that the modern day church constantly endures. However! We are not defenseless and without opportunity to correct it when it rears its head! For example, Jesus showed a great contrast between religious acts and obeying the Law (see John 7:20-24) that we can learn from. In it,…
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Are you bold?
How do you respond when the pressure mounts from your family, friends, co-workers, etc. about who Jesus is to you? Are you bold? Weak? Lukewarm? Do you willingly share that He is “the way, the truth, and the life” (see John 14:6) with the hopes that those you are talking to might also come to…
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What now?
Especially when times become difficult, when life presses in, when the challenges ahead seem insurmountable, the call of being a disciple STILL remains! This means that no matter what we are facing, God still places a call on each of our lives to do what He has asked us to do. Just as the religious…
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Discipleship Forces Change!
When we consider the word, “discipleship”, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it more to do? A challenge to your status quo? Perhaps an inconvenience to what you want? Those may very well be the negative thoughts that creep into our hearts, but is that not where the Holy Spirit…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 