Tag: God
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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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Will you do one thing?
Faith requires that each of us accepts that we are not in control, and that in the admitting of that truth we are presented with a real opportunity to understand Who is! However, asking God to “prove” that He is real continues to be a challenge that is not only seen all over scripture, but…
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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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He is Good!
The ministry works & incredible obedience of Jesus, emphasized by His own testimony of who He is, must encourage the Christian today to be bold and faithful because He is our Lord! Given as an incredible gift from God, He brings strength to those who follow Him because in His hands rests all authority, judgment,…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 