I heard someone say recently that you can be a 25-year Christian, or you can be a one-year-old Christian for 25 years. The Bible actually has much to say about spiritual maturity and the call to grow in the Lord. One reason our churches don’t grow is because of a lack of spiritual maturity. When we first come to Jesus,…
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You know what is miserable? Trying to go to church and be a Christian while still living for self. I did it for a while early on in my “Christian” walk. I had prayed a prayer and I certainly believed in God, but I was still living life on my terms. We have done a great disservice in the church…
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Rose and her husband, Simon, are farmers in Uganda who grow rice and yams for a living. However, they could never make enough to meet all their needs and pay for their children to go to school. But when they received 10 chickens, it was just the boost they needed to break free from the abject poverty they’d been living…
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Has God called you to do something that you are afraid of? Be honest. There’s that thing that stays on your heart, that ministry that really stirs your spirit. But. “I would, but…” The devil is good at putting a “but” at the end of our desires to serve in ministry. Not God. If God has put something in your…
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A couple years ago, I joined my friends in their backyard to view the heavens through their telescope. I put my eye to a lens and gazed at a star millions of miles away from me. I witnessed the glow of a fire that burns 140,000 times hotter than our sun. I viewed photons, or particles of light, that began…
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