There are three tools we can use to help us see where the Spirit as at work in someone’s life, so we can’t both encourage the good that is growing, and also help them see God’s presence—critical things in spiritual growth!

The third of them that we will look at is to appreciate what they’re doing, what God is doing through them—to say, “Thank you,” and, “I thank God for you”

This can make a huge difference.

Summer Series: How to Help People Grow

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River Hills Community Church, Associate Pastor Daniel Kosinski walks us through a sweet reflection on that powerful passage, Psalm 93.

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Jeremiah 36 points us to some wonderful truths about God’s Word and the Bible. But the main point is not about what we think about the Bible, but about what we do with the Bible.

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Jeremiah 32 is a story about God’s faithfulness, about the sure and certain hope we have in His promises.

And it’s a story about a risky-seeming financial transaction, about how God can be trusted and we can be faithful to Him.

And it’s a story about the doubt, the confusion, the messiness, of what it’s like to be faithful to the Lord and to the hope He gives us.

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There are three tools we can use to help us see where the Spirit as at work in someone’s life, so we can’t both encourage the good that is growing, and also help them see God’s presence—critical things in spiritual growth!

The second of them that we will look at is to affirm the good that God is growing in their life—to say, “You are good, and this thing that you are trying is good, and God is at work in your life!”

This can make a huge difference.

Summer Series: How to Help People Grow

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Where did the New Covenant come from? Jeremiah 31:31 is the first time it’s mentioned. The next time it’s mentioned in the Bible is Luke 22:20, where Jesus says that He’s about to inaugurate it.

Today we reflect on where the New Covenant came from, what was New about the New Covenant, and what it means to enjoy this astonishing gift.

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Jeremiah 29:11 is often used to give people hope—often, it seems, a version of hope that sets them up for disappointment.

But when it’s read in the context of the exile—that God sent the people of Judah into exile that they might relearn their need for Him and how to be His—Jeremiah 29:11 provides a deep, profound, astonishing hope. It’s a hope that every single on us living in exile needs every day.

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How can we know who to follow, who to listen to, and what spiritual guides we ought to avoid? This has been a problem since the days of Jeremiah, through the New Testament era, and onto today.

Not every one who claims to speak for the LORD actually does. And not everyone who claims to speak for Jesus actually leads us toward Him.

Jeremiah 23 provides four marks of bad spiritual guides, and the two all-important marks of a true and good spiritual guide.

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In this heated exchange between Jeremiah and the chief of the Temple, Pashhur, we are made aware of a few larger realities. First, we all have a relationship with the Word of the Lord. Second, This not only affects us, it also affects our friends.

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There are three tools we can use to help us see where the Spirit as at work in someone’s life, so we can’t both encourage the good that is growing, and also help them see God’s presence—critical things in spiritual growth!

The first of them that we will look at is to acknowledge the good that God is growing in their life—to say, I know your life, I see this good; know that God is present in your life.

This can make a huge difference.

Summer Series: How to Help People Grow

Photo by Steven Weeks on Unsplash‍ ‍

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