"God changes us by giving us a vision of his glory revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ."Brian Hedges, Christ Formed in You And so we sing, Open the eyes of my heart, LordOpen the eyes of my heartI want to see YouI want to see You To see you high and lifted upShining in the light of Your gloryPour out Your power and loveAs we sing holy, holy, holy - Paul Baloche...

I have been worrying about the wrong thing. Because I am convinced that our mission as a church is to make disciples that make disciples I have been worrying about how I could make this happen. It has burdened me in the wrong kind of way. I have felt almost depressed over my inability to make this happen. In fact some of those whom I had thought I was discipling don't seem...

Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light [But] In confession, the light of the gospel breaks into the light Since the con...

"We cannot continue in any endeavor very long apart from joy. Without gladness, the most potent spiritual practices lose their vitality. Celebration sometimes requires hard work. even God makes time for play and levity. The psalmist speaks of the leviathan, a bizarre sea creature God 'formed to play with' or 'sport with.' The Hebrew used in this verse means to laugh, be m...

When Christianity gets old......

O, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord!Our only salvation is there; It carries conviction down deep in the heart, And shows us ourselves as we are. J. Sterling In a number of places in the Bible the Scriptures are spoken of as water for cleansing. For example: Paul writes in Eph. 5:25-27, "...Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it; th...

Impossible Situations VS The Omnipotent God Can you predict how you are going to do in the Impossible Situationin which you find yourself? Yes. How? By discovering whether you are an expert on Impossible Situations or an expert on the Omnipotent God (a theologian!). When you can articulate in great detail and with passion the impossible situation you face but you cannot a...

One reason we see so little repentance in the world is that the world sees so little repentance within the church. So God turns up the pressure. To quote Matthew Henry, "God brings us into straits, that he may bring us to repentance and so bring us to himself." [from When God Comes To Church,Ray Ortlund Jr.]...