Archive for August 2013
Christ, Who Is Our Life!
What is the Christian life? It is likely that some of the more common answers from born again Christians would contain the following concepts. “The Christian Life is living my life for Christ. In return for what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for me, I will devote my life to live for Him as…
Read MoreGiving Thanks by Faith
When I was 19, my friend Andy and I couldn’t resist climbing a hill. We were in California on tour with our Christian music group. The family who put us up for a day lived next to a hill that beckoned us to explore it. After climbing to the top, we we were awed by…
Read MoreThe Blessing of Brokenness
“It is not until a beautiful kernel of corn is buried and broken in the earth by death that its inner heart sprouts, producing hundreds of other seeds or kernels. And so it has always been, down through the history of plants, people and all of spiritual life. God uses broken things. ” —THOMAS TOKE…
Read MoreWho Is Sufficient?
Biblical text: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 Today we begin what I think is one of the greatest passages in the New Testament. It is found in Second Corinthians, beginning in Chapter 2. Here is the clearest explanation in all the Word of God of the secret of the Apostle Paul’s phenomenal ministry. It runs from Chapter…
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