Care says "Not my needs but yours." Do you know someone who will lay down their life for you? Who will weep for you if you drift from the Lord? How many of us have a tear to shed when someone walks away from the faith? Do we really care?
If you have a desire for one thing then you are discontent with the other thing. For the Christian they desire Christ and therefore are discontent with the world and with sin.
Here is what the author of Hebrews is telling me is the remedy, let your mind just feast on Christ's sufferings, watch Him like a Lamb led to the slaughter.
There are great responsibilities in the Christian life, but there are also great and unspeakable privileges. The Christian has a precious Savior to trust in and to love.
He walks him around that track, and right before he goes across the finish line, his daddy lets him go. I want to tell you something, friend. If you're going...
An often overlooked ministry in the church is the ministry of encouragement. We need to be encouraged by other Christians, and other Christians also need to be encouraged by us.
It is grace that spurs on radical obedience to reach lost areas around the world. It is not simply exhortations to be radical that result in people being radical. It is tender forms of kindness and grace that form the most radical discipleship in the world.
The Christian finds some comforts in having true fellowship with other believers. However those who are keeping some darkness don't desire to come to the meetings because they've got something they are trying to hide.
"I gotta do something to clean up my life before I can go back to Christ and be received by Him." You should rather rise up and run straight back to the Father.
The Christian can cling to any promise in the Bible because they belong to Jesus Christ. All of the promises of God are ours because of Him (2 Cor. 1:20).
Don Johnson testifies to how the Lord saved James, his oldest son. He was very obedient as a child but at the age of 17 he dove into sin and rebellion.
Oh this life is a vapor, I am forty-seven, and yesterday I was twenty-one, were did it all go, it is a vapor! While you have strength, preach! I praise God that in his providence as a young man I spent myself in the Andes Mountains, in the jungles of Peru doing what I no longer have the strength to do.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. - Philippians 3:12
Pastors will face incredible difficulties in leading the church. Clint Leiter shares some of the fiery trials he went through after Bob Jennings went to be with the Lord.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24
Hi. My name's Steven. I was born and raised here in San Antonio. I'm twenty-eight years old and this is my testimony. You know the Scripture talks about in John 8:34, where Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees saying t...
After Paul Washer preached this sermon on a Sunday evening in Holland to end a weekend conference (also with Charles Leiter), everyone had returned to their tents and rooms, then in the middle of the night about 2am, ...