Posts Tagged ‘ Church ’
And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Ephesians 4:32, HCSB
Joy and peace are found in Christ alone, and we should be spreading that joy and peace through His redeemed Church and then to the world.
I preached again!
As usual, my PowerPoint is below the video.
Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience
Colossians 3:12, HCSB
God is worthy of our praise and gratitude, and we show it by treating each other well in the same faithful manner Christ has treated us.
The Lord will send His faithful love by day;
Psalm 42:8, HCSB
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.
God should be our greatest desire, and we can rest in His love and grace, seeking Him through prayer and praise by day and by night, even in our bed in the middle of the night and surrounded by fellow believers in church.
I am deeply depressed;
Psalm 42:6, HCSB
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
God should be our greatest desire, and when life gets in the way we should cry out to God from the places of safety, like Church, and in the midst of trials, just like David did when running from his son who tried to steal the throne.
I remember this as I pour out my heart:
Psalm 42:4, HCSB
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.
God should be our greatest desire, and our time with His Church should be the reminder of His faithfulness and reason to celebrate His coming to us, pushing us to love Him even more.
I thirst for God, the living God.
Psalm 42:2, HCSB
When can I come and appear before God?
God should be our greatest desire, and coming into His presence through reading the Bible, prayer, and being with the Church are the start. Our hope is eternity through Christ.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17, HCSB
God has redeemed us from death and sin through the cross of Christ, and we know have received freedom from their power by the indwelling Holy Spirit and the fellowship in the Church.
This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:12, HCSB
God has redeemed us from death and sin through the cross of Christ, so we should love others with the same sacrificial and grace-filled love, especially within the Church.
I wrote a guest post!
SlimJim was originally correct that I was doing a series on 1 Peter, and I would still like to, but being demoted from Yourh Pastor to essentially an executive pastor of another church took away a bunch of the time I originally intended to use to finish this series. I completed this part because I had offered it months ago. (And, as stated in the post, I had to finish this part for a seminary preaching class assignment. I did much of the exegesis for the rest of the book to complete this work. I slightly modified the work for the blog.)
Keep in mind it is mildly academic, and I pray you enjoy it!
Daniel
Note: This is a guest post since presently I am overseas. This is by Daniel M. Klem. His blog be found here. This is part of a series he’s doing for his blog! Exegesis of 1 Peter 3:8-17 as the Chiastic Hinge of 1 Peter or Answering the Faithless and the Faithful, An Exegesis of […]
Guest Post: Exegesis of 1 Peter 3:8-17 as the Chiastic Hinge of 1 Peter
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