“Where are you?” are the words GOD used to query Adam and Eve after they had sinned against Him in Genesis 3:9. The funny thing is that He(GOD) knew exactly where they were. He asked them for their benefit. He wanted them to recognize what he knew, that because of their sin, they were lost [...]
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The truth is that only God can do that. While we are commanded to forgive those who have sinned against us (Matt 6:12), we are never commanded to forget. Only God can choose to never remember. To the Israelites God said, “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more” (Jer. [...]
Last Night, Dr. Ronnie Kent, started a series at our East Campus entitled, “Parenting with a Purpose.” His experience as a Bible teacher, parent of three grown children, and a pediatrician gives him unique insights into the lives of kids and their parents. It was a needed break for JJ and me, along with several [...]
The Christian life is not about being changed, it’s about being exchanged. Because of Easter we can turn in our curses for His blessings. 2 Corinthians 5:21 reads, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” We exchange: Sorrows for [...]
I’m reading a small book, Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper, in the days leading up to Good Friday. This morning I was reading the prayer at the end of chapter 8 when some of the words went straight to my heart. In my relationship with Christ, I’m working through how obsessed I [...]
Every year in the weeks leading up to Easter I love to study and ponder the cross of Jesus Christ. God knew that as fallen humans we are drawn to the unusual, to the sensational, to dramatic. Don’t believe me – just think about the movies and TV shows that seem to get the highest [...]
. . . . . . . . . . . Matt 14:22-33 (NIV) Matthew 14:22-33 : Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to [...]
We’re studying Prayer Does it make any Difference on Sunday mornings (check out www.lifechange4us.org). One of Philip Yancey’s quotes from the book reads, “In prayer we should lay before God what is in us, not what out to be in us.” In other words when we pray we shouldn’t pretend to be righteous and that [...]
In 2 Kings 5, Naaman was challenged to obey God (through the prophet Elisha) by simply washing himself in the Jordan River 7 times in order for his leprosy to be healed. The problem is that Naaman had “Already tried that.” Thankfully he has some close friends that challenged him on this. Here are their [...]
Worshiping “Faith” or Worshiping God
Posted: February 6, 2008 in Books, Missions, The Word, TheologyThrough the centuries human beings, bearing the title of Theologians, have attempted to answer tough questions about God. One of those questions I recently read asked, “Does Prayer Change God”? Some come down on the side that God is eternal and unchanging; reasoning, how could God be God if He were always changing?” While others [...]
