When you bring the deepest desires of your heart to God and surrender them to Him, you transfer the burden of change from your shoulders to God’s. God alone has the power to transform your husband, and He’s quite capable of doing so—in His timing. Instead of criticizing, pray God’...
Instead, we should use our time to do things that will please God. We can do this bystudying the Bible, praying, and spending time with other believers. We can also use our time to serve others. We can do this by volunteering at a local church or helping a neighbor. ...
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. — 2 Timothy 3:16-17, NIV Getting closer to God means getting to know him. It meansgetting to know God...
getting to the spiritual root.” - Crystal Collins, Farragut Christian Church Make a Difference through Prayer Pray for local missionaries to be empowered with the wisdom, compassion, patience and resources to serve as God's ambassadors in Knoxville. ...
In 2002, during the 20th anniversary party for the Washington Times, Moon said, “The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world,” the Washington Post reported in 2009. Unification is a political concept, and the Unification Church, which uses th...
Is it good like an ice cold beer on a hot summer day? Or is it good like meeting your soulmate after searching for decades? Instead of ‘bad’ is it ‘horrible’? Or is it ‘frightening’ or even ‘godawful’? Speak to their senses. Move beyond your reader’s eyeballs. What does...
Numerous verses refer to the church as thebride of Christ.This imagery should remind us that marriages are meant to reflect the gospel. Read and study about how God treats the church (Christians), and make it your goal to reflect that same behavior with your spouse. ...
One of the most helpful paraphrases I’ve been taught applies to the Lord’s Prayer and to the “Lead us not into temptation” phrase. The teacher paraphrased this, “Lord let there not be anything in my heart that would cause you to put me to the test.” God never tempts anyone (...
The expression of our concern neither reflects nor establishes our holiness before God. Our responsibility is only to serve in the way in which we feel compelled. With that in mind, here are five things you can do to help the poor that really do help: 1. Begin in the church and ...
Religion, ritual, and history have reverberated in Varanasi for some 4,000 years. Its more than 20,000 temples primarily serve Hindus, but the city is important to Buddhists as well. It is thought to be where the Buddha gave his first sermon and founded the faith that millions still follo...