RENEW

The Lord uses adjustments to bring us back into alignment with Him and the plan He has for our individual lives. At times, these changes may make sense and seem easy enough. But inevitably, there will come a day when the Lord will call you to leave something or pursue something that may not make sense. A

Faith is often thought of as a thing we have—a belief in something or someone. But in the Scriptures, faith is more than a passive possession—it’s a firm confidence that results in action. An action follows every mention of faith. Instead of sitting back, believers should count on God’s promises and act accordingly, as did the men and women listed in Hebrews 11. The Lord accomplished amazing feats through their lives when they believed Him and moved out in obedience. Like a muscle, faith grows the more we put it into action. In this way, believers strengthen their trust in God and His promises, even when they don’t live long enough to see the fulfillment in their lifetime.

The idea of being “born again” (one of the most powerful and prevalent themes in the Christian faith) emerged from a conversation with a Pharisee. In John 3, Nicodemus—a Pharisee and member of the Jewish ruling council—came to Jesus at night with an inquirer’s heart and a question regarding the deeper meaning of salvation.

Jesus’ answer would not only change his life; it would change the lives of future Christians and like-minded inquirer's forever.

Stillness is the quiet space where God migrates from the periphery back to the centre. True prayer comes out of a life that has God at the centre.

The motive behind all true intercessory prayer is love for the other. Prayers that start with love for someone else and end with inviting God's activity

Start where you are. Talk to God about the little details of your life you think he doesn't care about. Talk to him about the ways he has let you down or disappointed you. Talk to him about the blessings he has heaped on you that you could never deserve. Talk to him about the anxiety you're carrying today. Just talk to him. Prayer is not the memorising of facts or highlighting of key phrases; its a relational discovery.

Although the Bible offers a great deal of guidance on how we can deepen our communication with the Creator, effective prayer has more to do with the one doing the praying than it does with “how” we are to pray. 

Christianity shows us an exhilarating vision that is rigorous, seemingly unrealistic, unbending, and otherworldly. The God of the Bible, whose glory and

The message of the New Testament is that the consequences of your response to the gospel message are massive. Eternity hangs in the balance.

No matter how things are changing in the culture around us, we choose to live according to a different standard with confidence in the ultimate triumph of truth.

And it is this truth that takes on the world, and sometimes it even takes on the church, because in the end Christianity serves the good of both.