Devotion: It is the Lord!
This is taken from a devotion on Utmost.org. Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God […]
Unity in Christ: Beyond race and nationality
Before Jesus was taken up to Heaven, He told the disciples the following: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8) The verse is an introduction for the […]
Jesus You are Worthy
Jesus You are mercy. Jesus You are justice. Jesus You are worthy. That is what you are. You die alone to save me. You rose so You can raise me. You did all this to make me, a chosen child of God. Worthy is the Lamb that once was slain. To receive all glory, power […]
What I learn from my fellowship’s Bible Study
Matthew 16:15-17 He (Jesus) said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. […]
What mature Christian do…
From Tim Keller‘s Counterfeit gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters Speaking about the characteristics of a mature Christian: Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going […]
Abraham, Issac and Jesus
Why had Isaac not been sacrificed? The sins of Abraham and his family were still there. How could a holy and just God overlook them? Well, a substitute was offered, a ram. But was it the ram’s blood that took away the debt of the firstborn? No. Many years later, in those mountains, another firstborn […]
Christmas Lunch…
“Where’s everyone?” My pastor asked as I was setting chairs and the tables in the social hall. I replied, “I do not know. They should be coming.” Yesterday was an unusual Saturday. My normal routine was to go to the Y, swim, then bike for a few hours. Instead, I found myself in my church’s […]
Lunch
How do you know if you are a Christian? My friend asked me over lunch a while ago. I didn’t have an answer. I simply told him that you know you are a Christian when you know. I thought about that. Not quite the answer I liked. Today, over pho, we talked about being a […]
Sharing with kids how to be missional
Today, I had the pleasure of speaking in my church’s children worship. It was the first time attending the service and I must admit it was quite a scene to see kids, the next generation, worshiping God. I did a Q&A with my youth pastor. We talked about my experience with God. Talked about Open […]
Say no and do vs say and not do
I was reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan and something caught my eye. The Parable of the Two Sons 28″What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ 29″ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he […]