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When God is working and moving, we try to impose our systems of measurement onto God. We tend to measure ourselves out of miracles. We tend to measure ourselves out of blessings. We tend to measure ourselves out of God’s purpose. We tend to measure ours
Forgiveness does not mean that what someone else did wrong was right; forgiveness is no longer holding someone else responsible for our wholeness. Forgiveness means acknowledging that only God can make our broken hearts whole again. No one else has the ab
No matter where you’re going, you’ve got to pack prayer. Don’t get so busy that you forget to pack the principles of God, the Holy Spirit, and the precious foundations of godliness. We can’t move into the places and spaces where God’s Word or th
What we say reveals what is in our hearts. It's the inward things that drive the outward response. To be defiled means that we are at odds with God. When we are at odds with people, then we are at odds with God.
Some of us have been deprived of having an earthly father. Maybe we have been taken advantage of, abused, neglected, harmed, or experienced pain from our fathers. But, there is a father in heaven who loves us so much that he gave his only begotten son.
When we look at Ephesians 2:4-9, we might be tempted to think: “If I’m saved by grace through faith, not of works, then why would I need to do any works?” But the truth is that we are actually saved by works--just not our works.
Before we have made a choice to follow Jesus, we live based on our own thoughts, feelings, bodies, and social influences, and we develop patterns of behavior based on our experiences. When we make the decision to follow Jesus, we allow the word of God to
In Christ, we are adopted, we are redeemed, and we are forgiven. Your fall cannot determine or define who you are because your walk hasn’t determined or defined who you are. Who you are is not achieved; it’s received by faith. Your identity is receive
When we begin to see who we are in Christ, God teaches us the rhythms of grace. Our God is a loving father who blesses us with every spiritual blessing, he chose us, he calls us holy, blameless, and he’s predestined us before he laid the foundations of
Identity always comes before activity. Christianity says, “look who you are--now you can do...” Once we know who we are, then we can fully do all that God has purposed us to do. When we don’t know who we are, everything we do is fleeting because it
Every benefit that Jesus gave to us is from the Abrahamic covenant. Our belief in Jesus passes the benefits of this Old Testament covenant that God made with Abraham to us. This is all a part of our inheritance: our children will be blessed, and we will r
Sermon from CCC