Tag: obedience
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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…
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Are You Task Oriented?
Focusing on ONE task at a time is often one of the most difficult things that we may face today. In a world where we are graded by one another on how well we “multitask”, we have to stop and consider what Jesus tells a crowd of people who followed Him in John 6:26. He…
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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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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,…
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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…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 