Tag: salvation
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Faith Today Calls us to Believe Forever
Sometimes I forget how valuable lived out faith really is. I know that the Bible says our testimony is precious, but I forget why. As I studied what the Bible says faith is this week, I was reminded… Acts 3:16 says, “And his name — by faith in his name — has made this man…
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Jesus’ Most Stern Warnings
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte;…
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Believed Promises Change Lives
When we believe a promise, we do something about it. That is all faith is – the response to a promise from God that we believe.
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The Mysterious Love of God
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 – For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. It is one thing to talk about…
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A New Tool for Evangelism – Discipleship
Last week I talked about Jesus helping you see your life in a new light. This week I want us to let Him show us how to see reaching others for Him in a new light. Think for a moment how you generally assume people get into the family of God. The way that…
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Loving the Lost
My wife says often, “If wishes were fishes we would all be in the sea.” We wish a lot of things. As a Christian, I wish often that the people around me all knew Jesus. Sometimes, I even think so highly of them that I avoid thinking about their lostness. I avoid seeing that they…
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Starting the New Year Right
As we begin the New Year, this is a time that we look both to the past and to the future. We look to the past thinking about where we have been. We use that past to think about where we want to go in the future. Are you thinking about your future? Are you…
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Trapped!
Galatians 4:17 They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them… 21 Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? A parable… Matthew 12:43 “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through…
Pastor John D Jakes 