Category: christian living
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Living the Risen Life
Christ’s physical resurrection results in the believer’s spiritual resurrection and someday in their physical resurrection too .
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Sin and the Christian
Because sin is always inexcusable, we should be determined not to sin. But because sin is sometimes inevitable and because provision has been made in case we sin, we should never be discouraged.
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Spirituality is the Priority
Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth I desire beside You
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WALKING IN THE LIGHT (Part 1)
1 John 1:5–10 [5] This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. [6] If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. [7] But if we…
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The Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22–26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the…
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Word and Life
Psalm 119:17-24 [17] Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. [18] Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. [19] I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me! [20] My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at…
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Thoughts on the Church
The church, the body of Christ, is the penultimate goal of God’s creating of the world; the glory of God, of course, is the ultimate goal. To understand the meaning of our lives both in this world and the next, we must learn to see our lives in relation to the church both in her…
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Faith in Times of Pandemic
Habakkuk 3:16 to 19. I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the…
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Humble Service (part 2)
(This is a continuation of the message given last February 26, 2020 to the congregation of Ikthus East – Bacolod City during the Midweek Service, based on Philippians 2:1-11.) 2. HE HUMBLED HIMSELF/WHAT HE BECAME: NOTHING. It is significant that nothing, becoming human, and taking the form of a servant seem to function as interchangeable,…
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Condemnation and Confidence
A couple of Saturdays ago, I gave a devotional on 1 John 3:19-24 to the Men’s group of my local church. Here’s the gist of it. “Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure…