Are You Living in the Dark? Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by...
Are You Aware of How You are Living? But that’s no life for you. You learned Christ! My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have...
Remembering Spurs Us to Seek Freedom I’m using this freedom language because it’s easy to picture. You can readily recall, can’t you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not...
Do You Have Ease In Your Life? But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And...
Do You Feel Like You Belong? God, who gets invited to dinner at your place? How do we get on your guest list? “Walk straight, act right, tell the truth. “Don’t hurt your friend, don’t blame...
Do Your Actions Match Your Words? What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is...
Where is Your Energy Coming From? What I’m getting at, friends, is that you should simply keep on doing what you’ve done from the beginning. When I was living among you, you lived in responsive obedience....
Correcting is God's Job “For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might...
How Are We Leaving Others Feeling? Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. Romans 14:1 NIV Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don’t see things the way you do. And...
Do We Know Christ? I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection...
Mercy is Our Job “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.” Matthew 18:35 NIV And that’s exactly what my Father...
What Rules Your Heart? Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15 NIV Let the peace of...