A heart of faith and love: These are two other qualities that we see are characteristics of a truly born-again Christian. They Have this faith and love and the inspiration for this of course is their expressed confidence in God. I want to give you a very simple definition for faith. Faith is simply taking God at His Word, that's what faith is: taking God at its word. It's not a feeling it can be, it can accompany feelings, but faith is not a feeling. It's nothing that you have to work up, it's nothing that you have to groan for or grunt for, faith is simply taking God at His Word.

Pray Always: How and When?

In first Thessalonians, Paul tells us that we're to pray continually. How do we do that? Well, the simplest way I can describe continual prayer is not the folding of the hands and the closing of the eyes, and kneeling, and having a prayer list. That's a part of Prayer, that's a valuable part of prayer, but praying continually is just having an ongoing dialogue with God because he's our friend and because he's our Savior, and because we have a life in front of us every day.

Stripped of a Thankful Heart

It kind of begs the question, what does it take for you to be stripped of a thankful heart? Maybe all it takes is a little offensive comment from somebody, or maybe a little neglect from someone. It could be that an oversight by a worker or by boss, or maybe a physical ailment, or a whining child or Kapaa traffic. You know it's embarrassing, but sometimes, that's all it takes for a thankful heart to evaporate and then what are we focused on, we spend all of our time.

You Can't Fake Christianity

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.

Life Lessons from Bob

May these life lessons remind and inspire us all to Live the Epic Life of following Christ and making Him known! Thank you everyone for your love, friendship and prayers over our family this year! May God bless you and produce lasting fruit through your lives! Live the Epic Life!

Living an EPIC Existence

I 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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