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Could you imagine covering yourself up in wrapping paper and giving yourself to someone as a gift? “Here’s your present—it’s me! I’ve searched the shops for the perfect gift—and I’ve concluded the perfect gift is me!” This is exactly what God did.
There is a difference between religious and gospel-motivated repentance, and if you are struggling to experience increasing sweetness in your walk with Jesus search your motives.
When we talk about preaching to the heart, we are talking about knowing the forms of love which dwell in the hearts of our listeners—and how these ‘loves’ influence their actions.
Heart is one of those words which is used so often we assume everyone in the room shares a similar understanding.
Many believers speak catchphrases without knowing how the gospel applies to the everyday stuff of life. They know Jesus is the answer to eternity, but have little idea of how Jesus is the answer to what they do in this life.
In 1998, I was sent to Okinawa as a domestic missionary of the Evangelical Free Church. Back then, the Evangelical Free Church was one of the most developed denominations in Japan.
When my husband and I entered into church planting, we were too excited to consider any negative emotions or possible hardship. We wanted to see every sickness healed and every sin defeated but failed to see God’s bigger story.
I was one of those ‘enthusiastic Christians’ that Dan McCartney refers to. The kind of person who passionately wanted to see every sickness and sin defeated in this life, but who failed to see God’s sovereignty in his own suffering.
Information on how to use the C.O.M.A. (Context, Observation, Meaning, Application) method to work through a biblical text.
As a pastor, I have been led to think about the prophet Elijah in recent weeks – exhausted after his confrontation with the prophets of Baal. Running for his life, he sits and asks God to take his life away.
The news of a Saviour was announced to the shepherds and there was an outburst of praise: “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 2:13–14). But there’s a problem. The ‘peace’ the angels sing about, is only available to those ‘with whom God is pleased’.