Judges : Hope for the horrific Part 3
When leaders lead and people serve, everyone praises God. The kingdom of God has no place for spectators.
When leaders lead and people serve, everyone praises God. The kingdom of God has no place for spectators.
Judges 3 : 1-31 God sends the most unexpecting, unassuming deliverer, who like many paved the way for Jesus. The Gospel to many can either be a stumbling block or foolishness - our prayer is that Christ is seen clearly for for He is… the Saviour of the world.
Judges 1 & 2 God's merciful hand saves.
The resurrected life is a life of hope, joy and love.
The resurrected life is a life on mission, to make disciples who will make disciples.
The resurrection life is a life of sowing an reaping. Because there is a law of sowing and reaping, we can therefore extrapolate a theology of sowing and reaping which therefore imposes a spiritual discipline of sowing and reaping. We are called to be obedient in our sowing and reaping, and watch God work.
Exodus 17: 8-16 The Resurrected life leads us to a life of worship. Yahweh Nissi
Phillipians 3:1-11 CSB My goal is to continually know Him and experience the power of His resurrection working in me and to be one with Him in His suffering. There is no better life than this.
Ephesians - Easter Sunday - Ephesians 1:1-14 CSB Every spiritual blessing in the heavens is ours, in Christ, because HE HAS RISEN.
Ephesians - Part XI - Ephesians 6:10 -20 Put on the armour of God
Ephesian - Part X - Ephesians 5:22 -33 Your marriage is important!
Ephesians - Part IX - Ephesians 6:1-9 (CSB) Follow Jesus at work and at home!
Ephesians 5:3-21(ESV) Wake Up! In a world increasingly full of distractions, it is easy to sleepwalk our way through life, blending in with the world. It’s time to wake up to who we are in Christ, and to bring our lives in line with our new identity in Him. It’s time to be filled with the Holy Spirit, allowing Him to make us into that which we already are: God’s New Community on Display!
Ephesians Chapter 4:17-32 (CSB) Stop Trying To Put On A Dead Person’s Clothes.
Ephesians 4:1-16 CSB Spiritual Unity produces healthy diversity.
Ephesians 3: 14-21 (CSB) - A prayer for the fullness of God Paul prays for empowerment so that the church may be filled with the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:1-13 (CSB) Paul's position, his purpose and the product.
Ephesians 2: 11 - 22 (CSB) His Transcultural Church
Ephesians Chapter 2:1-10 (CSB) Amazing grace how sweet the sound!
Ephesians Chapter 1 (CSB) Open the Eyes of My Heart
Psalm 119 (CSB) This Psalm is 176 verses of concentrated, ecstatic poetry about the word of God. Why was the poet so enamoured with the Scriptures? What can we learn from him? And what difference would it make?
Luke 2:25 - 38 (ESV) Simeon’s song teaches us about the character and mission of the Messiah, Jesus. It opens up our understanding of what salvation entails. It helps us to see Jesus as the promised One who has come to bring comfort and light to all peoples.
Luke 2: 8 -14 (ESV) The Angel’s Song gives us a heavenly view on Christmas; we get to hear what Christmas meant to the Angelic world. For the Angelic world, Christmas means: Glory to God and Peace on earth.
Luke 1:67-80 The Song of Zechariah teaches us significant lessons on waiting and longing. As God’s people we called to live obedient lives even in our waiting, and yet even when we are not faithful in our waiting, God continues to be faithful in his coming.
Luke 1: 39 - 56 (NIV) Like Mary, we can move from anxiety to adoration. The Song of Mary teaches us crucial lessons about the coming of the Messiah. In the coming of Jesus the upside - down kingdom has been ushered in. The weak, the needy, the vulnerable and the hungry are shown grace and favour while the self-sufficient go away empty.
Acts 1:8 CSB Emotionally healthy spiritual disciples are compelled to go out to make more disciples out of the love for God and see Him known and loved by others.
Exodus 34:5-7 (CSB) When you decide to follow Jesus it not only changes the trajectory of your life but it has the potential to set in a motion a different pattern of sowing and reaping that will break the curse that may have been multi-generational, and transferred to you.
Luke 14:25-33 While Jesus has paid the cost of our salvation in full, He gives us the cost of following Him and calls us to consider the cost before following Him.
Luke 4:1-13 (CSB) Embracing our limitations helps us establish healthy boundaries and ensures we are continually becoming emotionally healthy spiritual disciples - it worked for Jesus and it will work for us.
Galatians 5:13-26 (CSB) Our character matters. As the Church, we cannot follow the culture where your achievements and platform matter more than your character. We must walk by the Spirit and bear kingdom fruit that reveals Jesus and the beauty of the Gospel.