KEEP A BALANCE IN YOUR LIFE What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36 NIV Many people waste their life trying to gain materialistic wealth and then they waste it trying to recover their life. Due to the frenzy and the eagerness in their daily life…
3 THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN A SMALL GROUP Jesus set the example about the importance of Houses of Peace and discipleships. Coming out of the synagogue (temple) they came to Simon and Andrew’s house with James and John. 29 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of…
HOPE PRODUCES MOTIVATION It is said that a person can go forty days without eating, four days without any water, four minutes without oxygen, but nobody wants to live four seconds without any hope. The good news is that we know this life is brief and it is only a preparation for the real one…
APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control… Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy… 1 Peter 1:13-15 NLT. Let’s not be flaring flames that burn out, like people who practice…
CULTIVATE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS Cultivate healthy relationships for the times of sorrow. He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.” Mark 14:33-34 We all need trustworthy…
THERE IS NO OPTION ONE DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE AN INFORM. We are only administrations. One day our time of management will end and we will have to be accountable to the owner. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is…
DIRECT YOUR DARK QUESTIONS TO GOD, NOT TO MEN At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). Mark 15:33-34 NIV Darkness represents…
THE FOUR NEVERS OF LOVE “Love never stops bearing all things, love never stops believing in all things, love never stops hoping in all things, love never stops enduring all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 (Paraphrased) God never stops being patient with you. God never stops believing in you. God never stops hoping the best for…
NOT EVERYTHING BENEFITS ME You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 NLT Am I allowed to do anything? Why, if God doesn’t prohibit it? Sometimes we argue and…
USE YOUR RESOURCES TO ENCOURAGE GOD’S FAMILY Four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith,…