We need to hear and believe God’s word then we must respond to it in faith. Is there a sin to confess? Is there a behavior to begin? Is there a promise to hold? Is there an attitude to adjust? If we come to God’s word but it does not change us, we have deceived ourselves and are only hearers of the word and not doers.
Word and Spirit should always go together and never be separated. If you seek the Spirit of God apart from the word of God, you will find yourself seeking after “signs” and falling into emotionalism. If you see the word apart from the Spirit, you will end up in a dry and dusty dead orthodoxy without life or vitality.
Pastor Dave Monreal, Lead Pastor “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24 C.S. Lewis, in his book The Four Loves, makes this observation: “To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of […]
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
“You cannot keep the birds from flying overhead but you can stop them from making a nest in your hair.”
Pastor Dave Monreal, Lead Pastor “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 This is a fascinating verse particularly because it seems to be backwards from what we might think it should be. It doesn’t say, “Where your heart is your treasure will be also.” If this were the case, it would call for us […]
O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Our world is concerned with power, prestige, acclaim, and notoriety. n the Christian life there is no room for pride or arrogance.
