Pastor Ford will explain today that if our Christianity is not touching our whole life it’s because we’re still carnal. It’s because we’re still immature. It’s supposed to affect everything we have, everything we do, everything we say, feel and give. And so, our relationship with Christ should compel us to serve Him with our everything. Are you ready to serve Him that way?

The Devil is good at being the Devil, and that’s why we can learn some things from him. Wouldn’t it be good if some of us as Christians were as good at being Christians as the Devil is at being the Devil?

As we continue to consider what Christians can learn from the Devil, we see another thing we can learn from him is how to prioritize. He hates God and he hates everybody that serves God. He keeps his agenda focused on trying to destroy everything that God desires to preserve. Just think how effective we would be if we focused so wholeheartedly on what God wants us to prioritize.

It may feel like a strange thing to consider, but we can learn some things from the Devil. One of those things is how to persevere. See, he doesn’t give up, even though he doesn’t have all that we have to serve as an incentive for him to keep on going.

In His word, God has given us the revelation about the promises that He has for us. But He’s given us that revelation without giving us the manifestation of those promises yet. That’s because there must be a demonstration of application on our part in order for us to receive that manifestation. Pastor Ford will dive more deeply into these concepts today.

We’ll gain more valuable insight from Pastor Ford today as break from our regular program line up and take some time for him to answer your questions. We’ll cover topics like how to have a servant attitude, what will heaven be like, and what to do if you’re in an abusive marriage.

Preaching the gospel and making disciples should be the main priorities of the church. We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be distracted by people with winsome personalities, who may try to persuade us to focus on other things. Because any time we get away from the priorities that God prescribes, we’re going to have issues and problems, because we have veered from God’s agenda for the church.

Cliques are groups of people who exclude others and often follow a leader who has a charismatic personality. We often encounter them at school, work, and maybe even sometimes at church. But Christians really shouldn’t live the like that. When we look at the verses we’ll study today, we’ll understand that Christians must have unity centered on the person of Christ, and not on personalities.

Have you ever thought about how faith can be generational? As we look at the example of how Timothy’s mother and grandmother passed down their faith to him, Pastor Ford will remind us about how influential mothers and grandmothers can be in shaping the faith of their children.

Mothers have the responsibility of passing the baton of faith to the next generation. As we look at 2 Timothy 2, we’ll discover that Timothy’s mother knew that it’s not how high you jump or how loud you shout on Sunday, but it’s how straight you walk after your feet hit the ground on Monday.