“Faith is visualizing the future.” Rick Warren “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) What does your future look like? Where do you see yourself in a year? In five years? Ten years? Most people would answer, “I can’t know what my future looks like […]
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The complete title is, Becoming Jesus People Volume 2: More Inspiring True Stories from the 1970s Jesus People Movement. I read the first volume, Becoming Jesus People: True Stories of How Love Broke Through in the Jesus People Movement last year and was hooked after the first couple of stories. There is something especially powerful about oral
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“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.” (1 Corinthians 6:19) The context of this verse was that Paul was dealing with the issue of sexual sin in the Corinthian church. A false teaching had been
“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.” (Hebrews 11:4) “And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must
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“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) Have you ever visited the doldrums? Most people would say that while they have been in the doldrums
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I preached this message a few weeks ago at my home church, C3 Church Atlanta. I hope you enjoy it! David and Annie are serving the Lord in the US, India, Africa, and South America. Would you consider joining their team? Just click here to get involved. Thanks so much!
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“And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief.” (Mark 6:4-5) “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he
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“In the end, most of us will wonder if what we’ve given ourselves to has been worth the fight, especially if no one remembers our names. And that’s why we must never forget that what is done for ourselves will one day be forgotten, but that what we have done for others will be remembered
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“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep…I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me.” (John 10: 11, 14) The Gospel of John is built around seven miracles or signs that Jesus performed and seven “I am” sayings that he made. If
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