Prayer is not something for you to attend, but a kind-of-person to become.
Everyone prays, Even non-Christians pray. The difference when Christians do it is that they are climbing into the lap of their heavenly Father.
Because living under the weight of financial worry and pressure is not God’s agenda for us - it is instead to be generous people – let’s be resolute to wisely deal with our finances this year.
Because our energy has a limited capacity, let us use it with wisdom by being resolute to keep two main things on the table: to love God and to love others. After all, these are the most important commandments.
Because our time is a valuable commodity, let us spend it with wisdom by being resolute to remove hurriedness (and all that comes with that) and build a discipline to spend some of our time, like Jesus, withdrawing regularly to out-of-the-way places.
Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping.
This Christmas is a chance to make some space in our lives so that we would become aware of a God who has kept his promises and did this by providing Himself: “Immanuel, God with us,”
We’re taking a break from digging deep into the Bible this week to do something else that is very important in the life of a church: digging into each other’s lives and hearing some stories.
Because God is in the business of fixing things, let us join Him in that work by compassionately helping to bring reconciliation and peace to all people, and at the same time, let’s be quick to handover things that are too big for us and trust God with them.
Because God’s heart is for people and the Holy Spirit is with us for the sake of people, let’s begin to live in a common attitude of love, an atmosphere of hospitality and an acceptance that we don’t know-it-all.