You’ve likely heard the words “small groups” come up at your church from time to time. Sometimes they are known as life groups, home groups, growth groups, or cell groups. Whichever way they’re referred to, they all provide the same thing: fellowship in Christ. God designed us all to need fellowship. He wants each of […]
Category: Prayer
Finding Forgiveness When it Seems Impossible
Kim Phuc Phan Thi may not be a name that you have heard of, but she is almost certainly someone you have seen and felt deeply for. Kim is the face of the Vietnam of War that we all know; she is the terrified, burned little girl running from a napalm attack, captured in the […]
How Can I Stop Sinning?
Excerpt from Respectable Sins, Chapter 6; Directions For Dealing With Sins. Author Jerry Bridges. The apostle Paul wrote that we are to “put to death” the various expressions of sin in our lives (see Romans 8:13; Colossians 3:5). This includes not only obvious sins we want to avoid but also the more subtle ones we […]
How to Pray, What to Pray, and Getting Results.
Prayer—hard to get into, hard to understand, and how do we know if we’re doing it properly?! The Bible is how God speaks to us; prayer is how we speak to God. Prayer is our way of communicating everything with God. It’s a huge part of our relationship with our Heavenly Father and should be […]