You Were Called to Freedom

Since we have been called to freedom in Christ, we must live in the good of this freedom. 1. Christian freedom is not freedom to indulge the flesh but to control the flesh. “Christian freedom is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. It is an unrestricted liberty of...

No Reserve, No Retreat, No Regrets

I. Our Decisive Commitment (12:1) A. The Basis of the Commitment —The Mercies of God “We owe an enormous spiritual debt to God—a debt we can’t begin to pay. There is no way we can make it good. The gospel tells us that Jesus Christ paid our debt, but it also...

KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT:  What’s the World Coming To?

GOD’S BIG PICTURE. (Vaughan Roberts, GodsBigPicture.co.uk) “The kingdom of God:  God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule and blessing… That may sound like an overly simplistic definition for such a significant theme in Scripture, but the simple words contain...

Leaving the Stadium in the Bottom of the 8th

1. The Peril of Unbelief (3:12) The essence of “an evil unbelieving heart”: choosing to focus our attention and base our judgments on what God is doing that we can’t understand . . . while refusing to look at what God has said and done that we can clearly understand....