You can't fake Christianity. If you are truly born again, it's the only possible way of actually living what Paul is going to describe, and what we're going to study today. You can't fake this stuff; you can't maintain it. you can be really loving for a short period of time under the right circumstances, but you cannot maintain agape love outside of the power of a transformed life by God.
Read MoreThe Gospel makes it clear that Salvation is by faith alone in the finished work of Christ and by virtue of that work alone, and faith alone, we stand secure in our walk with God. Now he wants to sanctify us no doubt, he wants to transform us, no doubt, he wants us to be created into the image of his son, no doubt, but our stability, and our foundation, and our standing is based on something outside of ourselves, and that's the work of God. Its about Living the Epic Life - The Abundant Life
Read MoreIn this short clip, pastor Bob Hallman explains how we find true unity in all areas of our lives through Unity in Christ. How can you have unity?
Read MoreGet Back To Work. We have a calling. I need to get to work. You have a calling; we need to get back to work. I'm not saying we aren't, but I'm just saying it's an encouragement. That's what Paul was doing with this with this gentleman, he was saying you had a calling, you started out so well, but you got derailed somewhere along the way and you became so consumed and so busy with everything else.
Read MoreIf you are going to talk about someone, why not make it "Holy Gossip" and find things that people are doing well and let people know around us. "Wow did you know this guy can do that? Did you know that they bless me?"
Read MoreThe Bible tells us again in 1st Corinthians 6 that we've been bought at a price we are not our own and therefore we belong to Christ, and he goes on to say and because you're not your own you need to offer yourselves in service to God
Read MoreIt's an incredible journey we're on and God is the one that's going to make it happen. So, we can be at rest we can be at peace we can revel in it, we can enjoy it, we can let him do the work and we can even let the difficulties that we face in life, like Paul, instead of becoming a point of deficiency and a point of anger, and upset and offense on our part, it becomes our platform and a witness to believer and unbeliever alike, and a place where we learn how to be comforted by God in the midst of our trouble so that we too in turn can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Read MoreI read the news and everything, I feel powerless, don't you kind of feel a little powerless feel like everything's spinning out of control and it's just like we're just going down this these Rapids and there's a waterfall on the end of it, and it's like we can't get out and we can't stop the water.
Read More"Remember "hupomone!" "hupo means under, "mone" means to remain "hupomone" means to stay under the weight of the trials or the challenges of life without running, collapsing or giving up. You're waiting for God to lift it off in his due time.
Read MoreI want to encourage you my friends that you are not designed to be boring. Never, never, never settle for boring when God's holding out in front of you epic. That's what you can live but you have to connect everything in your life and realize it's from God.
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