No Language Barrier (Visiting Church #20) There’s a Mandarin service followed by one in English;. We attend both. The worship team leads us. The words to the song are displayed in Mandarin and have the English translation underneath. They sing...
Do You Hear From God? Under Holy Spirit inspiration Simeon and Anna affirm Jesus when he is a baby Shortly after Jesus is born his parents take him to the temple in Jerusalem to present him to God and go through the purification rites as...
When Is the Best Time to Do Good? Helping others is one of many ways to worship God I like the stories about Jesus helping people in need, such as by feeding them and especially by healing them. Even more I like it when Jesus confronts the...
When Is the Right Time to Close a Church? Churches Close for Tangible Problems, But Maybe Some Should Close for Spiritual Reasons In the book of Malachi, God laments about his people. Specifically he’s down on the priests because they show...
How Often Do You Have Meaningful Spiritual Conversations? We Must Be Intentional about Discussing Our Faith and Avoid Superficial Chatter After Jesus’s death and him overcoming death, he appears on the street headed to the city of Emmaus...
Women in the Bible: Anna Anna is widowed after only seven years of marriage. A devout woman, she dedicates her life to God, spending as much time as possible in the temple fasting, praying, and worshiping him. Anna is at least eighty-four years...
What Can We Learn from Cain and Abel? The First Brothers in the Bible, Cain And Abel, Also Provide the First Account of Sibling Rivalry. The first two people mentioned in the Bible are Adam and Eve. The next two people are their sons, Cain and...
Does Silence Scare You? We need to learn to worship God in silence, doing nothing but standing in awe of him The Book of Revelation is an amazing book. However, I fear that many people miss the point of it. The intent of Revelation isn’t to give...
Let Us Draw Near to God 4 insights in how we are to approach God Because of who Jesus is and what he did for us, our relationship with God the Father changes. Through Jesus we have a new connection with Papa that we didn’t have before. We can now...
Do You Have These Misconceptions about Church? Many people carry misconceptions about the purpose of church, and we need to set aside that thinking Last Sunday in “What is Church,” I suggested we are the church. Church isn’t a place we go—not...
