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7 Questions for Trials
Trials produce steadfastness, steadfastness leads to your completion and perfection, so count trials as joy. It’s a reality that God uses difficulties like trials for our sanctification. It’s unavoidable. But we’re invited to delight in that fact rather than dread it. Because we dislike trials and tests of faith, we may approach verses like these with lots of questions.
A wonder-filled Christmas
For many, Christmas is an overwhelming and chaotic time of the year, spent trying to keep up with everything and everyone. It kind of makes sense that Christmas loses its wonder.
How can we keep Christ at the centre of our home and hearts during Christmas?
God’s Great Armour
This is a totally fictional tale that you are actually invited to enter.
Losing Yourself VS. Laying Down Your Life
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16
Identifying Your Blind Spots
The good news is that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor and Advocate, and by inviting His guidance, we open ourselves to His transformative work in our lives.
Humble Yourself and Trust God
He carried the cross for me. He carried my sins. He promises to carry my burdens. I will trust him.” So, let us repent of our pride, humble ourselves before the mighty hand of God, and give to him all our anxieties.
Awakening Gratitude: Recognizing the Magnitude of Our Debt
The more we realise how holy God is, the more we become aware of the seriousness of our own sins. This realisation awakens our gratitude for the mercy of God and empowers us to love Him more!
Something is Blossoming in Japan
God is doing a mighty work amongst our brothers and sisters in Japan, and we can all learn from their example of gospel proclamation and living. They are a great blessing to the world, and we should strive to be like them, putting others first, being generous, and living with zeal in the Lord.
Reflections on New City Delhi’s 5-year Journey
Through every step of the way, we saw God’s faithfulness, provision and protection. And as I reminisce about the church plant at this 5-year mark, I wonder at God’s goodness. It only moves me to worship our sovereign God.
A personal God, not just a philosophy
As we revel in the riches of the faith, let’s not forget that at the center of that faith is a Personal God, who invites into the riches of relationship with him. Let’s revel, and relate, and rejoice.
Living A Life Of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving and praise will be our permanent heart posture for all eternity. As we live with this heart now, we practice something of Heaven on earth, a taste of eternity with Christ, and we reflect something of the eternal to the temporal world around us.
Whom shall I fear?
The greatest gift to us is God himself, who alone can provide us with the deepest satisfaction of longings that we may not even be fully aware.
Why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?
Because He lives, He can strengthen us, guide us, comfort us in our pain, and give us peace and joy despite the circumstances. So seek the living Christ!
Making Good News Feel Good
The gospel is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. Its power comes from the zealous love of God for his people. There is nothing more powerful than the power of being loved.
Getting my tuesday back - The heart idol of comfort
When I look to the cross, I’m reminded that Jesus would have had ultimate comfort in heaven, but he stepped down into humanity to love, rescue and redeem me. He gave up every known comfort to become a servant. In Philippians 2:6-8 we see that even though Jesus was in very nature God, he humbled himself even to die on a cross.
The Tree of Beginning
Without knowing your need for rescue, the good news just doesn’t taste good enough.
The Gospel and Community
As people made in the image of the triune God—who is a community in himself—we are made for community. We are hardwired to find fulfilment in meaningful relationships, and ultimately, in a relationship with God.
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