I'll Be Honest

1. Let the glory of God govern your marriage.
2. Let the will of God unfold and guide your home.
3. Let the Spirit of God fill and empower your marriage.
4. Let the Word of God dwell richly in your hearts and in your home.
5. Let the Gospel of God's grace fuel your marriage and your life.
6. Let the people of God be your family.

This excerpt was taken from the end of a message Mack shared at a wedding.

If we want to draw near to God, we can learn some very helpful realities from David in Psalm 86 now how to boldly approach God.

If we would draw near to God, we must first know God. We can only know who God is and what God is like from what He's revealed to us in His Word.

To what degree do you experience soul thirst for God? You don't have to give a thirsty person a list of steps on how to find water, they are looking for it. The Bible says to draw near to God, and you don't have to convince a thirsty person to draw near to water; in the same way, the Christian draws near to God because they thirst for Him.

God has made this world full of shadows that represent spiritual realities, and one of these shadows is physical thirst. Physical thirst is meant to point us to the thirst of the soul to have God. Christian, if you want more of God, guard your thirst for Him.

Some of the questions dealt with tonight:

1. My question is a two-part one. The first part is would you encourage single parents who believe they are called to overseas missions to go? The second part is how would you encourage them? I ask because I am a single mother missionary. When the Lord first put the call in my soul I researched the idea of single parent missionary and honestly found nothing positive. All the encouragement I received was from the Lord, His word, my pastors, my family in Christ, and missionary biographies.

2. I am struggling to get control over my thoughts and be able to clearly read the Scriptures.

3. Pastor Tim, I malpractice in an exam by asking help for help, should I set that right? I repeatedly had thoughts of discouragement regarding the matter and was about to set it right. I prayed about it and was about to send the apology email, just before that I asked my brother in Christ he told me to wait and pray and later advised it is not required. I left it as he said but now I get condemned. Should I set it right now? Please help.

4. Pastor Tim, My husband, and I have been attending a church for about three years now. The Lord saved me about 4 years ago and immediately as I studied the bible on my own, the Holy Spirit led me to the doctrines of grace. Our church is one that holds to the Carnal Christian or no-Lordship doctrine of salvation. I consider this false teaching of which I can no longer be a part. But my husband is still very involved, good friends with the pastor, and does not see this as I do. I really need your help, it seems I have 3 choices, one, I stay and continue to belong to this church. Two, leave, and do not go to church at all. Three, find another church on my own. All of these are against scripture and I really have been very grieved over this. I have looked up scriptures and prayed and fasted constantly over this. I have no one to ask for advice. All the people at church are telling me I am abandoning my husband and the Brethern. Please, please could you give me advice, I am so torn as to what I should do!! I really am so grateful for Grace Community Church.

5. What is the question that you get tired the most of the hearing as a pastor? Answer: Questions about the unpardonable sin.

“I cheated on an exam when I was lost, what should I do about it?” It is far more difficult to live with a defiled conscience than to live with whatever consequences you might face for clearing your conscience. Those who are newly saved often find themselves now sensitive to sins from their past and God will give them the grace to deal with that which is appropriate to expose.

What could be more satisfying than having God draw near to you? But If you want God to draw near to you, you first need to believe that God drawing near is an actual reality and not just a theory. Do you really believe that if you draw near to God that He'll draw near to you?

In this live question and answer session, we spent the majority of our time dealing with questions about raising children and parenting.

In this excerpt, Tim Conway shares about his father's death and the things surrounding it, and what he shared while preaching at his father's funeral.

Our greatest need is drawing near to God; but if we're going to draw near to God, we need to have the right attitude. What should be our attitude when we draw near to God?