You can’t live without hope. There are things you know with your mind that are not operating at the very center of your being. Paul in his prayer is asking the Holy Spirit to take what we know with our mind and use it to dominate our thinking and imagination to such a degree that our behavior would be…

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. This Thanksgiving I'm thankful... This Thanksgiving I'm thankful... This Thanksgiving I'm thankful... • That there aren't twice as many Congressman and half as many doctors. • That grass doesn't grow through snow,…

Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always when I remember you in my…

Last week’s sermon laid a foundation of forgiveness using Paul’s writing to the church at Ephesus and Colossi. He told both churches; “to forgive one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” As we grow in our understanding of positional forgiveness we will grow in our practice of forgiveness. We have…

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. ; “ Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,…

We’ve been in a series in which each week we look at one of the attributes of God according to the Bible, one characteristic of the character or the nature of God. This passage, a very famous passage, also a very rich passage, has a theme that’s not that hard to discern. Three times … In verse 5, it…

WHAT IS GRACE? GOD’S RICHES AT CHRIST EXPENSE. GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AT CHRIST EXPENSE. UNMERITED FAVOR SHOWING KINDNESS TO A STRANGER IS UNMERITED FAVOR. DOING GOOD TO ONE’S ENEMIES IS MORE OF THE SPIRIT OF GRACE. SEE LUKE 6:27-36 GRACE CANNOT BE AMAZING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OUR CONDITION. WE WERE A…