If you’re like most Christians, you rarely pick up your Bible to read it on your own. You know you should read your Bible, just like you know you should be a better steward of your body with diet and exercise, and you should floss your teeth daily. You know you should do these things,…
It was a hard day at church Sunday. Perhaps the hardest I have ever experienced. Definitely the hardest I ever want to experience. We hoped and prayed that last Sunday would never come. But Sunday, our church family at Bethel Baptist Church in Weatherford, Texas voted to begin the process of transferring the property deed…
Perhaps the reason there are no spontaneous outward expressions of excitement in church … is that there is nothing to get excited about.
Or, perhaps there is something to get excited about, but we don’t care because we don’t have “skin in the game”.
To ultimately atone for sin required the ultimate sacrifice. Rather than a simple slash in a ceremonial fashion, His death was carried out brutally by the forces of hell itself through perfected means, designed to inflict the most pain over the longest period of time. Sadism at its worst — on display.
We are to live as a “grace-aholic” … relying on God’s grace to not only save us, but to enable to live the holy life that God intends for us to live in freedom (Galatians 2:21).