A Time to Be Renewed A MATURE WITNESS

We encourage others by our walk and our witness. We also encourage others by the way we go through testing. I like the way the New Berkley Version translates Psalm 71:20-21: “Thou, who hast made me experience troubles great and sore, wilt revive me again and wilt bring me up...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed TIME TO PRAISE

If you had lived during the Thirty Years’ War, could you have praised God? This war occurred from 1618-48 and was the last of the great religious wars of Europe, a conflict that began between Protestants and Roman Catholics. But before it was over it spread from Germany, where it...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN MARRIAGE

It is amazing that two married people can live together and not really know each other! Ignorance is dangerous in any area of life, but it is especially dangerous in marriage. A Christian husband needs to know his wife’s moods, feelings, needs, fears, and hopes. He needs to “listen with...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed OUR WORKS SHALL FOLLOW US

The Judgment Seat of Christ is where Christians will have their works judged by the Lord. It has nothing to do with our sins, since Christ has paid for them and they can be held against us no more. The word for “judgment seat” in the Greek is bema, meaning...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed SILVER SERVICE

How do you value your service to God? The way you look at it helps to determine how you will fulfill it. If you look upon serving Christ as a burden or even a punishment from God instead of a sterling privilege, you will be a drudge and do only...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER

No Christian rises any higher than his praying. Everything we are and everything we do for the Lord depends on prayer. Most of us would rather work than pray. But we know that without prayer our work is useless. What a difference it would make in our personal lives, our...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed GOD REWARDS TRUE FAITH

Moses was fortunate to have believing parents. For them to hide their baby son from the authorities was certainly an act of faith. Vance Havner has said, “Moses chose the imperishable, saw the invisible, and did the impossible.” Moses’ faith enabled him to face Pharaoh unafraid, and to trust God...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed THE DISCIPLINED LIFE

Paul was fond of athletic images and used them often in his letters. The Corinthians would have been familiar with the Greek Olympic Games as well as their own local Isthmian Games. Knowing this, Paul used a metaphor very close to their experience. An athlete must be disciplined if he...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed WHEN TRUTH BECOME ALIVE

In Bible times, a scribe’s work was to examine the Law and discover its teachings. Remember that the scribes began as a very noble group. They devoted themselves to the protection and preservation of the Law. But sad to say, the scribes degenerated into an unspiritual clique and were more...

Continue reading

A Time to Be Renewed WALKING TO PLEASE GOD

Along with jogging, walking has become a popular exercise and outdoor sport. As I drive in the city, I often see individuals and entire families enjoying a walk in the park or in the forest preserves. When driving on the highway, I sometimes wave to “walking parties” heading for some...

Continue reading