FIVE YEARS FROM NOW SERIES This Weeks Introduction: When we set lifelong spiritual goals for ourselves, we must understand that our lives will not always be the way that they are currently. We will experience a variety of seasons that come and go. Through every season we are called to seek after sanctification. Sanctification is…
Read MoreFAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD Friday Read: James 2:18-26 ” 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith…
Read MoreFAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD Thursday Read: Matthew 5:14-16 ” 14 You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same…
Read MoreFAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD Wednesday Read: Titus 1:16 “16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. ” (NIV Titus 1:16) Study: Paul is writing this letter to a man named Titus who lives on the island of Crete off of Greece.…
Read MoreFAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD Tuesday Read: Ephesians 2:8-10 ” 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”…
Read MoreFAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD Monday Read: James 2:14-17 “14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well…
Read MoreOUR ROOTS IN GIVING Friday Read: 2 Corinthians 9:5-8, 12-15 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given. 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap…
Read MoreOUR ROOTS IN GIVING Thursday Read: 2 Corinthians 8:16-21 16 Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. 17 For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative. 18 And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by…
Read MoreOUR ROOTS IN GIVING Wednesday Read: 1 Corinthians 16:1-4, Romans 15:25-28 1 Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come…
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