One day we will each have to give an account for what God has given us to do. Let us be sure that we don’t take what God has given to us and bury it away, but use it in a way that honors the God who gave it to us. The following series of lessons, brought to us by Jeff Keele is a good reminder to put on the servant attitude and work to bring people to our Father. By living in an way that mimics His Son’s life we can be servants for Him.
Paul calls upon each of us to change the way we think: About ourselves, about one another, and about our gifts. If we make excuses for not using our gifts we are in danger of experiencing the same condemnation as the slave who received the one talent in Jesus’ parable (Matthew 25:14-30).
Do you remember something about which you have been enthusiastic? Perhaps, you were so excited that you couldn’t even sleep the night before. When Paul exhorts us to be “fervent in spirit,” he is utilizing an idiom from his day, it literally meant “to boil in the spirit.”
Do we serve the Lord with enthusiasm? Can others tell that we care for one another? If your answer is no, then I must ask you, what are you doing to change things?
How would you sum up your mission, focus, purpose, and devotion in life? People will sometimes draft a motto for life. My motto in life has been for several years…
Most of the Old Testaments uses of the word "confess" occurs in the sense of acknowledging who God is (praise), acknowledging what God has done (thanksgiving), and acknowledging sin (confession).…
The Parable of the Talents is another parable which Jesus uses to illustrate a truth about the kingdom of heaven. In the previous parable we encountered ten virgins, in this…
Repentance is "sorrow". 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 shows that repentance is an outcome of sorrow. Sorrow leads to repentance; sorrow itself is not repentance That repentance is "a changed life". Some…
When most of us hear the word “watchman” our minds produce an image of a single individual who is given the responsibility to keep guard during the lonely hours of…
God expects us to use our minds (Matthew 22:36-38; John 8:32) We do not have to commit "intellectual suicide" in order to have faith. A weak faith is the result…
Many of us as parents have had a child who promised to do something which we told them to do, but never did. They may have explained away their failure…
“Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it; redeemed by the blood of the lamb.” When we look at who God is and who Jesus is and all they have done…
You and I have always heard it called “the parable of the workers (laborers) in the vineyard,” but this title assumes that the workers are the focus of the parable.…
Our word for tonight is Kingdom. God's Kingdom has a past, present and future dimension. Listen along as we discuss these as we learn more about the word "Kingdom."
