Practicing the spiritual discipline of Bible study is one of the ways we live into the freedom Christ is offering us from the lies of Satan.

Together we are the temple. We need each other because the Holy Spirit dwells in each of us. 

Our physical life was given to us at birth. Our inner life has been shaped and formed over time. But zoe life, that is given and imparted into us by Christ.

Why should we be persistent in prayer when we don't get immediate answers? Because maybe it is not His will, maybe it is not His timing, and maybe we don't know what is best. We have to keep praying and keep praying until we know one way or another.

The sin that was once holding you down in your life is gone. You live a life in which you are constantly in tune with the Holy Spirit and denying your flesh.

This idea of sanctification and means this thing is set apart. Sanctification is the process of becoming more like Jesus. It is being changed from the inside out so that we come to genuinely love what God loves and love like God loves.

Liturgy is the work of the people, responding to the work of God. Liturgy gives us a shared language but it is not identical expression. The goal is not uniformity or unanimity. The goal is unity around the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Over a course of time, she kept asking who Jesus is to me and what does He mean to me and I realized I had never made that proclamation for myself. I just assumed I was a Christian because I sat in church every Sunday and I went to a Christian school.

When a Holy God comes, something has to give. When God has moved mightily throughout the history of the church, it is always characterized by prayer and repentance- humility.

Jesus did not answer their question with a question. He did not answer it at all, at least not definitively. Time was not His concern nor was politics. The mission was Jesus' concern.