1 Thessalonians 4:14 speaks of those who have “fallen asleep in Jesus”, 4:16 speaks of those who are “dead in Christ”. Verse 14 uses the Greek verb ‘koimao’ in the passive tense. As it was explained to me, this means that the believer is put into a calm, [permanent at the earthly level] sleep by God - [...]
1Cor. 1:17-31 (NASB)
For Christ did not send me [Paul] to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void. For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved, it is the power [...]
For the exercise enthusiast, their body is a temple. The same is true for the believer - the difference is that our body is God’s Temple. And while studying recently I found something that was exciting to me. I wanted to share it with you. I hope you find it encouraging also.
Here’s what God’s word [...]
I’m sure we can all think of situations in our lives where we have heard the word ‘love’ misused. I’m sure we can even reach deep down and think of times we have misused the word ourselves.
Love has gone much the same way as ‘awesome’ and ‘humility’ in our vocabulary. We toss ‘love’ around as if [...]
My husband, Barry, and I met up with our Senior Pastor last night. Pat is probably one of the most encouraging people I know. Not only is he our brother in Christ and pastor, we are blessed to count him also as friend.
Pat has been meeting with us to help get us back on track [...]
