Tag: obedience
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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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Will you Surrender?
When life is good, it is easy to tell people about how good God has been to you, isn’t it? Is the opposite true in those times when life is way more challenging; or maybe when everything in your life seems to be against you and you cannot find your way to experience any peace?…
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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,…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 