The office of deacon is not a badge of status, but a banner of service.

In 1 Timothy 4, Paul encourages us to prioritize godliness over physical pursuits! While exercise is great, spiritual growth brings lasting value and leads us to holiness! Let us remember that faithfulness in our spiritual journey is crucial, as it involves teaching truth and living out our beliefs with joy! 

Prayer can take the helpless and the hopeless into a place of forgiveness and healing.

In the longest sentence we will read in Ephesians, Paul attempts to lay out the blessings of the believer that are found in Christ. To write out each blessing or try to cover them all in detail would require a significant amount of time. We will examine each blessing over the next few weeks.

The Lord makes things widen when we feel like they are closing in and becoming tighter.

There are more reasons to praise the Lord of Grace than there are attacks not to. We should let our praise unto His glory be as one sentence that doesn’t stop, with commas and conjunctions that continue the praise of God. Our praise should be like a waterfall, whose sounds are produced from the source and the strength of the water flowing from above.

Anything that hinders our communication with God is an obstacle to prayer.

God is not passive about the lost, but rather He is compassionate. He is searching, sweeping, and waiting with arms open wide. And when one sinner repents, all of Heaven celebrates.

In weakness, fearfulness, and brokenness, the

strength of the Lord is made known.