Living Free This Advent: Spend Less and Give More
If we are trying to follow God’s example, giving at Christmas ought to look less like giving presents and more like giving our presence. In fact, the best gifts celebrate our relationships with God and others.
Living Free This Advent: Worship Fully
We worship fully when we worship God with all that we are and all that we have. Worship reflects what is going on in our hearts. The easiest way to evaluate our hearts is to take an honest look at how we spend our time, energy, and money because doing so will indicate what matters most to us.
Living Free This Advent
This Good News should fill us with joy, wonder, purpose, and peace. Why do we often feel the exact opposite this time of year? Jesus wants us to live free from that feeling. Would you join me in choosing to overcome the cultural pressure and worship fully, spend less, give more, and love all?
Prayer and Thanksgiving
We glorify God by making ourselves known as Spirit-filled believers who give thanks to God always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Contentment
What do you gain through contentment? You probably won’t gain what your flesh craves, but everything your soul desires like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
God's Concept of Happiness
As long as you are focusing on what you don't have, you'll be unhappy. But when you begin to appreciate what you already have, you'll begin to experience the joys of life.
Peace with One Another
We cannot make others what we want them to be, and they cannot keep us from being the person God created us to be. What we have freely received from God, we freely extend to others.
Prayer and Thanksgiving
We glorify God by making ourselves known as Spirit-filled believers who give thanks to God always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gratitude Acknowledges God as God
Gratitude acknowledges that God is powerful enough to do what is best.
Please and Thank You!
Or is it thank you and please? Next time you go to God in prayer, begin with a thank you. Thank God for who he is and what He has already done in your life.
Prayer and Thanksgiving
We glorify God by making ourselves known as Spirit-filled believers who give thanks to God always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
How Should You Pray?
Have you ever wondered how you should pray? Let’s take a look at the Lord’s prayer in Matthew 6 as we break it down into a simply acronym of how to pray: ACTS.
God's Concept of Happiness
As long as you are focusing on what you don't have, you'll be unhappy. But when you begin to appreciate what you already have, you'll begin to experience the joys of life.
How to Thank a Veteran
As we consider the sacrifices and selflessness of our veterans and their families, may we live our lives with a purpose greater than ourselves. Take the time both pray for and say “thank you” to veterans today!
The Ministry of Reconciliation
When we are reconciled to God, we become brothers and sisters in Christ, and that is the basis for our unity. We must personally choose to be reconciled to God by faith, but it is universally inclusive, and we must voluntarily receive reconciliation as a gift to voluntarily share it as a ministry.