3 Things We Must Do To Overcome Spiritual Warfare
Recently I woke in the night to find myself having a conversation with God and the enemy, just the three of us.
Recently I woke in the night to find myself having a conversation with God and the enemy, just the three of us.
As Independence Day approaches, I thought we needed a dose of truth when it comes to our country. Before anyone panics with what my topic is let me say this; yes, the United States does a lot of great things, but that alone doesn’t make us a Christian nation.
Let’s be really honest. Most Evangelical attempts at films in the last 30 years have been, putting it nicely, terrible. Numerous people, Christian and non-Christian alike, have taken a shot at exactly why this is. Everything from “they’re cheap” to “they’re not honest enough” have been suggested. For the past four years or so since starting my own career as a filmmaker, I’ve struggled to explain to many why I refuse to support these movies.
What if the worst sinners aren’t the drunkards, drug addicts, criminals, and those outside the church. What if the worst sinners are actually inside the church?
John 15:1-8 is a tough passage of scripture. But it’s one that we each need to hear and cannot afford to ignore.
Church attendance is slipping and people are valuing Church less and less. Why does Church matter? Can we get Christian community elsewhere?
Change is one thing that does not come easy to any church. Which is pure irony; For the church is the place where God cultivates people to change. Since the inception of the church in Acts chapter 1, change has been an immense struggle. But change is what the Church desperately needs.
Whatever we are going through Jesus is with us. He is not distant. He weeps with us.d
These sayings you have definitely heard and maybe even said. But the problem is they aren’t in the Bible. Not only are they not in the Bible but believing them can hurt your faith.
We worry about small things and let little issues ruin our day. To summarize Paul tells us to not worry and be happy. God has saved us and we have nothing to fear.
Our failure to commit is destroying our relationships. It’s killing our relationships with people and it will be the death of our relationship with God.
In Philippians 2:1-4 Paul challenges us to move from selfish to selfless.
I’m confronted everyday with a reality that I don’t really care to acknowledge. I am not good enough. I’m a terrible follower of Jesus. With my words I’m great, but my actions rarely back it up. I’m far more selfish than I care to admit with my wife. As a pastor I’m regularly confronted with issues I have no clue how to deal with. In the most important areas of my life I am not good enough to do them even remotely well.
“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.” 1 John 2:15-17 (NLT)