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Relationship with God comes by faith in Christ

Relationship with God comes by faith in Christ When we believe that we are sinners and have offended a holy and perfect God, that we deserve nothing but separation from him and eventually to be away from Him for eternity, then it grips our hearts that we need to be reconciled to God. But we cannot reconcile ourselves to Him, because our “good” works are not enough. They do not meet His standard of perfection. Fortunately, this Holy God is a God of love, not willing that we should peri...

Don’t Fail to Pray for Others

Don’t Fail to Pray for Others 1 Samuel 12:23 - Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will teach you the good and the right way. Samuel the prophet stood before the people of Israel at Gilgal and reminded them of the things God had done for them and their forefathers. It is here that the people begged Samuel to pray for them because they had added to their wickedness by asking for a king to be placed over them. They wan...

An Invitation from Jesus

Matthew 11:28 - Come to (AF)Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Have you ever been weary and tired not just physically, but mentally and emotionally worn out? Have you ever felt like you carry such heavy burdens that you can hardly stand? And it seems like there is no end in sight to this tired, burdensome journey doesn’t it? If this is you, then you know how the crowd listening to Jesus in the cities felt. They were under Roman occupation, veritable slav...

Immanuel – God with us

In Matthew Chapter 1, verses 22 to 23 we read “So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” Immanuel - God with us. Many people read that with the understanding that God was “with us” at Christ’s birth, God becoming a man, Jesus Christ. And that is correct, God became a man, Jesus C...

Honor God above all else

Several years ago I knew of a Christian who had huge struggles in his walk with Christ. Confronted with the usual weak areas in his life he would always choose to give in to the pleasure of sin and the indulgence of his fleshly desires. Thus began his long foray into a lifestyle of sin while he remained sitting in church every Sunday. What a contrast to the story of Daniel in the Bible. When the kingdom of Judah was invaded by the Babylonians, Daniel was taken prisoner, castrated, his famil...