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Jesus is your guard against all evil

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 3 JESUS IS YOUR GUARD AGAINST ALL EVIL But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you ...

TOPICS: 2 Thessalonians 3, faithfulness, hardship, protection, strength, struggle, trials

God chose you for glory

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 2 GOD CHOSE YOU FOR GLORY God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification ...

TOPICS: 2 Thessalonians 2, calling, choice, destiny, election, glory, predestination, salvation

God will make you worthy of His call

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Thessalonians 1 GOD WILL MAKE YOU WORTHY OF HIS CALL To this end we always pray for you, ...

TOPICS: 2 Thessalonians 1, calling, christian life, destiny, qualification, sanctification, worthiness

God will surely make you clean

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 5 GOD WILL SURELY MAKE YOU CLEAN Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, ...

TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 5, holiness, purity, salvation, sanctification

When you focus on Jesus, He steadies your heart

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 75 WHEN YOU FOCUS ON JESUS, HE STEADIES YOUR HEART When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, ...

TOPICS: focus, instability, peace, Psalm 75, security, turmoil

Jesus will welcome you home

God’s Hope For Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 4 JESUS WILL WELCOME YOU HOME For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry ...

TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 4, death, end times, life, rapture, resurrection

God’s love is the source of your holiness

God’s Hope For Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 3 GOD’S LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR HOLINESS And may the Lord make you increase and ...

TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 3, faith, holiness, love, Receiving, works

God has put his trust in you

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 2 GOD HAS PUT HIS TRUST IN YOU Just as we have been approved by God to ...

TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 2, evangelism, faith, Gospel, grace, stewardship, trust, witnessing

God has chosen you

God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 1 GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, ...

TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 1, choice, election, predestination, salvation, value, worth

Jesus can truly reconcile

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 4 JESUS CAN TRULY RECONCILE Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning ...

TOPICS: christian life, Colossians 4, conflict, disagreement, maturity, peace, reconciliation

God’s plan is greater than your perception

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 74 GOD’S PLAN IS GREATER THAN YOUR PERCEPTION Why do You hold back Your hand, Your right hand? ...

TOPICS: deliverance, enemies, hardship, help, perception, perspective, Psalm 74, trials, waiting

God will never let go of you

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 73 GOD WILL NEVER LET GO OF YOU Nevertheless, I am continually with You; You hold my right ...

TOPICS: abandonment, comfort, disappointment, faithfulness, Psalm 73

Jesus is your sovereign peace

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 3 JESUS IS YOUR SOVEREIGN PEACE And let the peace of Christ rule in your heart, to which ...

TOPICS: Colossians 3, freedom, lordship, pain, peace, September 11, stress, suffering, surrender, tragedy, worry

Jesus cleared your debt completely

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 2 JESUS CLEARED YOUR DEBT COMPLETELY And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of ...

TOPICS: atonement, Colossians 2, cross, debt, forgiveness, justice, propitiation, salvation, sin

Jesus is your power for the purposes of God

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 1 JESUS IS YOUR POWER FOR THE PURPOSES OF GOD Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone ...

TOPICS: anointing, Colossians 1, devotion, mission, perspective, power, strength

God’s peace is greater than your problems

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philippians 4 GOD’S PEACE IS GREATER THAN YOUR PROBLEMS The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about ...

TOPICS: anxiousness, hope, peace, perspective, Philippians 4, prayer, problems, suffering, supplication

Jesus chose you anyway

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philippians 3 JESUS CHOSE YOU ANYWAY Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I ...

TOPICS: election, love, perfection, Philippians 3, predestination, value

God is the source of all good things

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 72 GOD IS THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD THINGS Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who ...

TOPICS: beauty, creation, goodness, grace, provision, Psalm 72

God is your continual salvation

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 71 GOD IS YOUR CONTINUAL SALVATION Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually ...

TOPICS: deliverance, help, patience, prayer, Psalm 71, rescue, trouble

God is the one who does the work

God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philippians 2 GOD IS THE ONE WHO DOES THE WORK Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, ...

TOPICS: effort, empowerment, grace, Philippians 2, salvation, trust, works

When I Preach

What makes a good sermon? Ask ten people and you’ll probably get twelve opinions, but as for me, I try to ask myself these four questions when I preach a message. Is it PERSONAL? Why would I want to hear someone tell me about my problems or possibilities without admitting …

TOPICS: ministry, preaching, speaking

MULTIPLICATION (in Acts)

Healthy organisms multiply. Healthy churches… …

TOPICS: Acts 6, Acts 9, church, growth, multiplication

ART: Colors and Shapes

TOPICS: art, beauty, hope, perspective, photos

Giving Ourselves

To sing about “giving ourselves” to God is almost silly. …

TOPICS: church, devotion, ministry, service

SONG: Be Thou My Vision (piano)

I love to play the piano. Ever since I can remember, it’s been a source of joy and peace for me to just sit down and play. I find some of my sweetest times with God are when I’m on the bench, feet working the pedals, fingers dancing on the …

TOPICS: Be Thou My Vision, hymns, music, piano

Building the Kingdom, one child at a time

Imagine being a mom in the jungle of Ecuador… …

TOPICS: Ecuador, education, Jungle Kids for Christ, missions, sponsorship

TEACHING: The Lighthouse

What do you do when the light starts to go dark? **FICTITIOUS** COMPLIANCE NOTICE FROM U.S. OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS ASSISTANCE In 1884, the Sanibel Island Light first brightened the skies of Southwest Florida. As the first gulf lighthouse north of the Florida Keys, it has stood for 128 years as …

TOPICS: America, freedom, independence, July 4th, messages, patriotic, sermons, teaching, the Lighthouse

Praise in the Dark

Ever feel like you’re lost in the dark? “Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let Your glory be over all the earth!” -Psalm 57:5 Picture the darkness of a cave. You’re trapped, with an enemy outside hunting you down. You are cold, tired, hungry, feeling alone. That’s the scene …

TOPICS: darkness, David, hope, joy, perspective, Psalm 57, Saul, trial

The Self-Made Man

We praise the idea of the “self-made man”, but is that a good thing? A spirit of self-reliance takes a man’s affections and warps them inward. If he has money, it is HIS money because he worked for it. Therefore what he does with it is his decision alone and …

TOPICS: humility, pride, Self-reliance

Adorn the Gospel

What do earrings and good works have in common? In his pastoral letter to his protégé Titus, at least five times Paul stresses the importance of “good works,” that it is for this purpose that we were saved. He says that the reason for this is that we might “adorn …

TOPICS: adornment, good deeds, good works, Gospel, jewelry, Titus