Only One Way To HeavenGalatians 2:16 is key to our understanding of how and why God declares sinners righteous.
Your most important question: Has God declared you righteous?
Here’s the link to the sermon, study notes, and discussion notes from Galatians 2:16:
Our seventh week of daily devotions in the Book of First John center on the John’s discourse on resisting the world. You’re going to need your Bible and I’ve provided the Study Notes on this website that you can either bookmark, or print. Be sure to scroll down to the notes outlining and commenting on the 1 John 2:12-17. Or you may want to download the word document: 1jn2.28-3.10nn. I hope this helps those of you who are committed to journaling this year.
Our seventh week of daily devotions in the Book of First John center on the John’s discourse on resisting the world. You’re going to need your Bible and I’ve provided the Study Notes on this website that you can either bookmark, or print. Be sure to scroll down to the notes outlining and commenting on the 1 John 2:12-17. Or you may want to download the word document: 1jn2.28-3.10nn. I hope this helps those of you who are committed to journaling this year.
Here are the study notes for next week’s morning studies and devotions from the Book of First John. We will be covering 1 John 2:28-3:10. If you want to download a copy to print: 1jn2.28-3.10nn
As a father protecting his little children, John warns his friends that the false teachers who have left their assemblies will steal the greatest joy any believer will ever know—the joy of life in the family of God. The theme of First John isfellowship—that experience of intimacy with Christ and His people only available to those who belong to Him. The false teachers were telling them lies that would steal this intimacy.
As I read the accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, I’m impressed by His amazing kindness, patience, and tolerance toward all types of people: children, fishermen, businessmen, lepers, rulers of synagogues, tax-collectors, occupying Roman soldiers, prostitutes, political traitors, adulteresses, zealous political patriots, rich, poor, Jew, and even Gentile.
He lets people say the most inane things about Him or His Father, and gently asks them clarifying questions or offers insightful guidance. He listens before He speaks, or sometimes doesn’t say anything at all.
Except for one type of person, one group of people, one crowd He meets. Every time He meets them, every conversation He has with them, every circumstance and occasion when their paths cross, Jesus aggressively confronts them. And the names He calls them–a bunch of snakes, whitewashed graves, hypocrites and heretics.
To these people He is surprisingly unkind, impatient, and intolerant.
Our fifth week of daily devotions in the Book of First John center on the John’s discourse on resisting the world. You’re going to need your Bible and I’ve provided the Study Notes on this website that you can either bookmark, or print. Be sure to scroll down to the notes outlining and commenting on the 1 John 2:12-17. Or you may want to download the word document: 1jn2.18-27nn. I hope this helps those of you who are committed to journaling this year.
Ever feel like everything is going wrong? You know what I mean, you find yourself asking God if He really has any idea of what’s going on in your life. I’m in the middle of one of those times right now. Snow in the Midwest turned my flights from New York into an adventure, my truck’s in the shop, and now my computer’s acting weird.
Fortunately I’m working on a new book about discipleship and writing about Jesus’ words, “And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27).
It helped me so much as I sat exhausted, stuffed into the last plane leaving Philadelphia, that I wanted to highlight two points for you:
Take up your cross has more to do with agendas than it has to do with specific burdens of suffering. When that Roman soldier jerked you out of your home and strapped that cross on your shoulder, whatever you had in mind for that day, that week, or the rest of your life just changed. His agenda for your life was all that mattered.
Sometimes the hardest part of crossbearing is daily. I’m pretty good with the big agenda items. I’ve gone through relational, health, and financial crises and accepted it as Jesus’ agenda. But when my flight is cancelled or my truck needs a new engine or…. I don’t know why, but it’s often the little things that cause me to cling to my agenda with a sin-clenched grip.
Question: Is it the big things or the little things that flip you out and give you an attitude toward Jesus’ agenda for your life?
Our fifth week of daily devotions in the Book of First John center on the John’s discourse on resisting the world. You’re going to need your Bible and I’ve provided the Study Notes on this website that you can either bookmark, or print. Be sure to scroll down to the notes outlining and commenting on the 1 John 2:12-17. Or you may want to download the word document: 1jn2.18-27nn. I hope this helps those of you who are committed to journaling this year.
Our fifth week of daily devotions in the Book of First John center on the John’s discourse on resisting the world. You’re going to need your Bible and I’ve provided the Study Notes on this website that you can either bookmark, or print. Be sure to scroll down to the notes outlining and commenting on the 1 John 2:12-17. Or you may want to download the word document: 1jn2.18-27nn. I hope this helps those of you who are committed to journaling this year.
