Emotions: controlled or bottled up?
How do we control our emotions biblically? What do our emotions tell us? A guide from the psalms.
Four Biblical Practices for Lent
Taking up one of these disciplines for 40 days will hopefully set a new pattern in our lives, a pattern of walking more like Jesus. Four Disciplines for Lent: Lament, Fasting, Integrating, Prayer
Benefits of Trusting God Always: Verses from the Psalms
Benefits of Trusting God Always, from the psalms
Doing a Study of a Character in the Bible – 7 Steps
How to do a Bible character study and free download. We look at the struggles or conflicts the person has faced, the lessons that person has learned, how God has impacted their life and how the person has changed or grown. Looking at these aspects of a person, we can see better who God is, his character, and how he interacts with man.
Book Review: Demystifying Decision-Making by Aimee Joseph
Ms. Joseph explains the theology behind God being more interested in the process of decision-making than the outcome, the process being that we lean on him. This is the part that really settled within me and forced me beyond the questioning of my decisions and put me at peace with the bigger decisions and even the daily decisions of what to have for dinner and how much laundry to get done.
Co-laboring with God leads to greater productivity
We are being conformed to the image of Christ. The Holy Spirit works within us, in collaboration with us, to form us more like Christ. The key is that collaboration. As in, co-labor.
Book Review: Unshakeable Trust by Joyce Meyer
Challenge to Trust. Joyce Meyer was candid in her own struggles with trust and yet shares them with humility and humor to encourage us all in our walk.
Defining trust and a brief overview of trust in the Bible
God is fully trustworthy…man – not so much. An overview of trust in the Bible, with definitions.
How to do a Bible Word Study in 4 steps
Bible word study in four steps and using free resources online. Doing a word study can help clarify meaning, deepen understanding, assist in memory recall, and delight our soul. A word study is useful in many ways.
What Is Spiritual Growth and How Do I Know that I Am Growing Spiritually?
Spiritual growth for a Christian is the phrase that we use to describe the changes that take place in us through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Not some lofty ideal; it just means that as we are changed by God, that change is labelled spiritual growth. Evaluating spiritual growth is rather personal, but can take on several methods.
Session 12: Luke Chapters 23-24 Resurrection Faith (Part 2)
Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension are celebrated today. They are unique - he did it all for you - cancelling all that separates you from God. These chapters show us how it all came about under God’s sovereign hand.
Session 12: Luke Chapters 23-24 Resurrection Faith (Part 1)
The struggle of faith happened even to the disciples. Read Luke chapters 23-24 with us to see how Jesus addressed them and how he addresses our faith today.
Session 11: Luke Chapters 21-22 The End Comes Part 2
Jesus taught of the end times with encouragement for believers as well as warnings, always balanced. He focused on others and not himself even as his time was ending.