Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Here’s an excerpt from an email I received from Jonathan Leger. Jonathan is one of the successful internet marketers from whom I’ve been trying to learn how to grow my online business.
The subject of this email was not how to grow a business, though. Instead, it has application for how we deal with other people in our everyday Christian life. Read more »
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Jesus is our redemption, but it cost him his life. He died on the cross so that you and I would not have 
to endure the punishment for our sins. Because of this supreme sacrifice, the Holy Spirit can now live on the inside of us!
We are His temple!
Hebrews 3:6 says, “But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.”
Why then would we want to associate ourselves with sinful things? Read more »
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Consider these words of Jesus from the book of John:
“Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. Wherever they go, they will find green pastures. The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.”
(John 10:9-10 NLT)
Gatekeepers. That’s what we are called to be. We stay close to Jesus, the Gate to God, and place the hands of the lost on the latch—the latch that each person must open for himself, but to which we can direct them. It’s part of the great commission Jesus gave us when He went back to be with our Heavenly Father. We find reference in the gospels to the task we are all given: Read more »
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to Adam, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’”
(Genesis 3:8-9)
God was accustomed to communing with Adam in the garden “in the cool of the day” (for some reason I really love that phrase). After Adam had eaten of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he was not so eager to take an afternoon stroll with God.
If we are reluctant to have a “one-on-one” conversation with our Creator, or with His Son, it is often due to similar thinking on our part. When we are “good”, we are eager to be in His presence–praising, worshiping and conversing. When we are “bad”, we usually are not so eager to seek Him out, nor do we really want to think about the fact that we are always with Him because of the presence of His Holy Spirit in us. Read more »
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
There’s a song which has dominated my attention some time now. From the first time I heard it, I began to play it so many times I’ve lost count. I think it’s a beautiful song, of course, but there’s so much more to it than that.
The song is titled “Captivate Us.” It’s on a CD by the group Watermark. It’s a simple, quiet song with two voices and an acoustic guitar. I’m sharing the music with you here but I really want to suggest it not as a song, but as a prayer–a prayerful preparation for a conversation with our Heavenly Father. Not only have I listened to the song many times on the way to and from work but I’ve also used it to prepare my heart to commune with the Lord and to practice His presence as I begin to have conversation with Him. Read more »
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