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Salvation is the means to get back to the goal: relationship with God
God’s plan becomes our calling: to live of the same likeness of Jesus Christ.
Salvation is the means to get back to the goal: relationship with God
God’s plan becomes our calling: to live of the same likeness of Jesus Christ.
What prevents you from seeking rest? What aspects of your life do you feel like you are running out of time? What are the natural limits you have as a human being? How can those limits be seen as gifts rather than something to overcome?
When we recognize the temporary nature of all that we consume ourselves with and everything around us, there is a deep emptiness that we have the opportunity to confront.
It’s the kind of love that someone demonstrates when they’re keeping a promise, and when the desire to be loyal to their promise motivates them to go above and beyond and be super generous, more than what you would expect—that’s khesed. — Bible Project
The Hebrew word Emet is commonly used to describe God in Scriptures. It can be translated as “faithfulness” or “truth”. So when the Hebrew Bible says that God is full of emet, it’s actually saying that God is trustworthy, therefore we can rely on Him and trust Him.
Have you even wonder what grace means and what is about? Well, dive with us into the study of this God’s character trait and get some answers you might be looking for.
Do you consider anger a feeling which we shouldn’t have? Did you know that God feel it? However the Scriptures say that God is slow to Anger. Do you know the real meaning of “anger” in the Scriptures? It’s very interesting and even curious! A truly good person sometimes gets angry at something. Join us.
How much about God’s compassion do you know? How it flows and from what? Join us and let’s dive in to God’s motherly compassion for us.
Seeing God makes us see ourselves. He is light and love in person. When He reveals himself to us we become aware of His holiness and our darkness, of His love for us and our deep need of Him. He is all we need. He is enough.
What’s the Purpose of Life? What was I created for? What does the Purpose of Life has to do with seeing God?
God doesn’t reveal anything to us that He doesn’t plan to heal, cover, or care for. Rather than hiding in shame when the Lord reveals a shortcoming, what might it look like to view this as an invitation to turn back to Him in worship instead?
God’s presence is generosity and wholeness. But how might our avoidance of desperation prevent us from experiencing this?
Sometimes unpleasant situations come up to our lives. Our default is reject them and refuse to go through the challenges they present to us. Think about this: what if we accept to learn from the challenging and uncomfortable situations that often present themselves in our lives? What kind of human beings will we be tomorrow if we embrace life's challenges with hope and faith? I dare you!
What is happiness? What is its nature? What does God's Word say about happiness? In this short poem, Caio Fabio (a Brazilian writer and former pastor) reflects on what it means to be happy in the Kingdom of God. In other words, in this poem the author gives a brief description of happiness as an identity in the Kingdom of God.
Lament can be a simple, powerful and child-like prayer in the midst of anger, sorrow, sadness, grief and longing. Lament doesn’t deny or ignore reality but acknowledges the truth about where we are, how we feel, what we need, and cries out for God to narrow that gap. Laments can be expressed in many ways. Whatever form your lament takes, it is a way to start telling your story, naming your feelings, releasing painful memories to receive healing, comfort, encouragement, hope, guidance from God, by trusting Him.
Decisions that lack wisdom and common sense usually reflect the absence of love and the presence of fear. However, this is not about finding people to blame for the experienced consequences, nor of living this metamorphosic process with guilt and shame. Although both may arise instinctively, the reality is that under the light of Truth and humility they fade away.
His name is Bob Sorge and he used to be a pastor and a worship leader… till something happens in his life that blocks him to talk more than an hour a day. This is a powerful testimony of trusting God’s love and character for us.
This is Ladan’s story. An Iranian women who decided to share Jesus and give Bibles to people in her country. Ladan was subjected to interrogation and solitary confinement in Iran because of her faith in Jesus. A very encouraging story!
This is the story of a christian singer who was imprisioned and tortured for 32 months because of her faith and love for God. Her name is Helen Berhane
Along with others I cannot thank God enough for teaching me the great truth that the way of victory is the way of brokenness by seeing Jesus and His blood.
Life-giving streams, welling up from broken and contrite hearts, began to flow very quietly together, swelling the stream of new life in our district.