The Christian Mission Statement: To know God and to make him known. To know Him is not simply to gain more and more knowledge about Him, but to share an intimate communion with Him. To have fellowship with Him in the manner of Abraham and Moses. Genesis 18 brings out...
“All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.” Acts 2:42 NLT Fellowship, from the Greek word koinōnia, means community, joint participation,...
Surrender leads to the Holy Spirit’s indwelling. Obedience leads to the overflowing of God’s blessing, mercy and grace. The only sapient response is to bind yourself to the altar as a bondservant of Jesus Christ.
Imagine you were a doctor, and you ran tests on a patient and learned they had some illness. But you did not tell them because it might hurt their feelings, or make them feel sad or unhappy. You would be sued for malpractice. Particularly if you had the cure for the...
We love this anecdote. One day Francis of Assisi gathered his friends at a remote monastery in central Italy. When he asked them about their journeys, each brother had an exciting tale to report. One had been riding his mule across a narrow bridge that spanned a deep...