Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Trying to living the Christian life without the assurance of God's love is a pretty grim business. That's why Satan relentlessly tries to undermine our confidence in God's love for us. "Keep yourselves in the love of God," the Book of Jude instructs us. Imagine if we made sure to begin every day by consciously resting in our Father’s love!

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Paul concludes his letter by pronouncing a Trinitarian blessing on the church in Corinth. The first word of blessing is “the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ” — because the free favour of God in Christ is what meets us at the very beginning of the Christian life.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 13:11.

Restoration, encouragement, unity, and peace are all God's gifts. But we can't receive those without effort, without striving, without faith-filled, Spirit-empowered determination to build each other up in Christ.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 12:1-10.

Paul had been granted a mystical journey to heaven, but he wasn’t even allowed to talk about. The real revelation the Corinthians needed to hear about was Christ’s response to Paul’s prayer for the thorn in the flesh to be removed: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” We assume our inadequacies repel God, but they actually create space for him to inhabit our lives.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 11:16-33.

A disturbingly high percentage of pastors are clinical narcissists. But why do churches enable leaders who abuse us? Perhaps its because we too are worshipping the god of worldly power instead of following Jesus in the way of the cross.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Kuanysh Akkuzov on Matthew 7:21-23.

What does God want you to do with your life? Guest speaker Kuanysh Akkuzov from Teen Challenge offers seven principles from discerning God’s will.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 11:1-15.

The ‘super-apostles’ showed up in Corinth and offered a different Jesus, a different Spirit, and a different gospel—all design to serve cultural idols. Paul appeals to the Corinthians—and to us—to stay close to Christ, and not be lured from his side to be destroyed.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on 2 Corinthians 10.

A head of the Church, Jesus is the source, model and standard of authority. True authority encourages obedience to Christ and participation in the mission of his Gospel. And ultimately, all authority aims at his approval.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on Matthew 28:16-20.

After his resurrection, Jesus commanded his disciples to go into all the world making disciples, “baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Thus we meet the Trinity at the very commencement of the Christian life, where we are plunged into the Triune Name—more precisely, immersed into the Son’s own relationship with the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bart Byl on Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3.

The church Luke describes in Antioch was an international church in a multicultural city made up of diplomats, business people, migrant workers, and slaves from all over the Roman empire. This new community was the fruit of Pentecost—only the Holy Spirit could have formed this family of God out of such diversity. As an international church in Tbilisi, what special opportunity has God given us to be a witness for the kingdom and the presence of the Spirit?

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Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.