31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 22
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »SERVING WITH CHRIST -- Serving Like Christ What was Jesus like? I suppose that question could be answered in many ways, but there's one description of Jesus that ranks at the top. Let's allow Jesus to tell us in His own ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 21
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »BECOMING LIKE CHRIST -- Reflecting Christ Naturally If we do a good deed for someone we really care about and we're thanked by that person, we respond, "Aw, it was nothing," or "It was my pleasure," or "I enjoyed doing it ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 20
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »BECOMING LIKE CHRIST -- Influenced by His Closeness Jesus rubs off on us! When we seek to truly follow Him in obedience and to "practice the presence," as Brother Lawrence put it, we'll find ourselves being influenced in positive ways by ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 19
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »BECOMING LIKE CHRIST -- Spiritual Disciplines that Help Not much gets done without some measure of discipline. You don't usually get a job done without being disciplined about doing some things that aren't easy, fun, or immediately rewarding. You don't usually ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 18
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »BECOMING LIKE CHRIST -- Nine Characterisics of Being Like Him One Sunday I was greeting people after our traditional-style worship service. I was still in my robe when a little boy came up to me and asked, "Are you Jesus?" (I wish ...
31 Days toward Maturity in Christ — Day 17
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »BECOMING LIKE CHRIST -- From Parking Lot to Road I recall an episode of the old Gunsmoke TV series. The story involved a preacher who dressed in black and was always preaching about righteousness. He also consistently wore a stern look on ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 16
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »LEARNING FROM CHRIST -- Enroll in His School A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing! Just a little knowledge about golf won't make you look like a pro on the golf course; you'll look like a fool. Just a little ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 15
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »LEARNING FROM CHRIST -- Directions That Are True How do we know that the Bible is true and that it really speaks God's Word to us? Let me share with you why I have supreme confidence that the Bible is God's ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 14
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | 2 Comments »LEARNING FROM CHRIST -- Directions for the Journey God can give us directions for our journey toward spiritual maturity. There are five general ways that He does it. Creation: God reveals Himself through creation. This is called general revelation because it's not specific. ...
31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity — Day 13
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in 31 Days toward Spiritual Maturity, Growth | No Comments »LEARNING FROM CHRIST -- Input for a Man Named John We've all found ourselves in frustrating, difficult, painful, or confusing circumstances. I doubt, however, that we've had things as difficult as John did. John was known as John the Baptizer; we ...
