Tag: obedience
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Our Response Matters
Understanding how Jesus responds to people (even when they are vindictive and cruel) is of critical importance to all of us today. If we are His followers, and He is our Lord, then how He demonstrates how to live is critically important in every facet of life right now. If we will take a lesson…
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How will we walk?
The truth is always your most reliable, faithful weapon in this world of chaos. It is the one thing that we never have to struggle to remember because it is what happened, what was said, or what is needed without pretense or additional information. When Jesus spoke the words, “I tell you the truth …”, He…
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Does it change us?
When it comes to studying the Bible, one of the most overlooked items is that we do not make it personal – but rather, view it as a “loose guideline” of how to live. Now before you say it … this is not an attack, rather, it should be seen as an indication of what…
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Choose to Live
One of the most difficult things that each of us will encounter is being obedient to God when we are faced with the choice of what we “feel” like we should be doing. God has called each of us to a place of choosing how we will live, and since we have a choice, it…
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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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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,…
Pastor T.J. Conwell 