Posts Tagged ‘ Relationship ’
In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16, HCSB
God came to us, and from the moment of faith in Christ’s work on the cross indwells us by the Holy Spirit and empowers us to shine His light through good works and the sharing of the gospel.
Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16, HCSB
God came to us, and from the time of faith in Christ’s work He dwells in us by the Holy Spirit. As the Church we are theTemple of God.
The Lord is near all who call out to Him, all who call out to Him with integrity.
Psalm 145:18, HCSB
God came to us and made a way to Himself through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Because he lived and lives, He understands us and hears our cries. Let us take Him into a lost and hurting world.
“There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”
Acts 4:12, HCSB
God came to us and made a way for us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to be with Him for eternity. He is the only way to have eternal life.
“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.”
John 5:24, HCSB
God has come to us and made a way for us, and we believe the Word took on flesh and that His words are true, we can find eternal life with Him and should share those words with others.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:19, HCSB
God has come to us and a made a way for us to be with Him through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Now, Jesus has sent us out in the power of the Holy Spirit to bring others into relationship and salvation with Jesus.
I preached again!
This will be at least every other week going forward, just so you know. I am officially on pastoral staff at Paulden Christian Fellowship with Pastor Paul Trout.
Below is the video and my PowerPoint.
On this day 26 years ago, at 6:46 PM CST, I bent my knee to Jesus as Lord and Savior. (If you do a search on this site for “birthday”, you will see the various explanations.)
I like to call it my Re-Birthday, as we call faith in Christ being born again. This comes from John 3 and 1 Peter 1. I encourage everyone to remember their own re-birthday (and if you aren’t sure/can’t remember, just claim your baptism day or your birthday.)
I also like to bake some sort of cake and then serve it to others as a way to teach self-sacrifice and becoming a servant to all as our shared salvation is celebrated.
Sometimes it’s messy, or we’re still a little crisp on the sides, but we have a sweet salvation.
This year, I am still helping teach Christian Worldview and Intro to Philosophy courses with 270 students (+46 for a CWV class I am covering for 2 weeks for a friend who had surgery) who were all born after this momentous day in my life. (I am also taking classes with fellow seminarians who also were mostly [not 2 of about 100] born after this date!) It is also in April that I am set to finally graduate with my M.Div.
There is a good probability I will be serving at a new congregation this year, but (as of today) it is still purely in God’s hands.
It is a little weird to think that I have been a Christian so long, especially having come to Christ as a teenager and now working with teens and 20-somethings as a youth pastor and college instructor.
God is so good.
Also, it is my mother-in-law’s birthday, so join me in wishing her a happy and blessed day! If not for her, I would not have my wife!
Also also, it is my friend Fletcher’s birthday. We met in seminary. He’s a TheoBro of the highest order.
God bless you, and remember that Jesus Christ is the reason we live and move and breathe and have meaning and being!
Be excellent and party on!
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2, CSB
We find joy and peace by remaining focused on the joy Christ could see on the other side of the cross, knowing He took our shame and punishment on Himself to bring us into fellowship with God when we believe He saved us from the curse of sin and is always with us.
a simple man of God 