Tag: devotional
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Will you trust His will?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could walk on water? Just think about the time we could save being able to cross the smallest lake without needing alternate transportation! While it might be easy to focus on the “convenience” of something, we need to see (because we can easily miss it) that not everything…
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What do you need?
One of the most often celebrated miracles of Jesus in John 6 is the feeding of the 5,000 men (which implies that there were far more people present than just 5,000 people). However, what if we examined this event not from the “satisfaction of our bellies”, but from the standpoint of praising God for what…
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We still need Grace!
On the heels of understanding the reason for God’s incredible gift by sending His Son to die, we see Jesus continuing to testify in John 5 about our desperate need for salvation. What we must understand is that the Law, which was given to correct our behavior, is still the standard God will use to correctly judge…
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Everything matters!
Obedience to God is a requirement if we are ever to see any results in our life. Whether it is our prayer life, our witnessing, how we act on the job, our relationships with family, and even the things we might consider “mundane” … if we are not beginning all of these with obedience to…
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Share Your Gift!
The gift of eternal life is simply what that: it is a GIFT! Jesus’s encounter with a woman at a well in Samaria is a pivotal conversation to learn from because it shows the readiness, the availability, and the simplicity of the proclamation of the Gospel. However, for Jesus, we might think this would be…
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Leave Room in Faithfulness
The topic of faithfulness in our testimony is one that Jesus covers often, especially when it concerns encouraging those who claim to follow God to share Him freely. In our continuing study of John 3, we see that Jesus clearly calls the reader (us) to know that our testimony of Him matters because He must…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 