God’s holiness is both terrifying and beautiful; we fall on our faces, but then we ….want more!
Grace. Grow! Groups. Go!
Grace. Grow! Groups. Go!
Sermons by Tom Oster
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord!” Sometimes on vision of a king has to die in order to see The King!
The mark of the Christian is love: “whoever does not love, does not know God”. God’s love is made complete in and through us. “Love your neighbor as yourself” – that one whom God placed in your path.
John gives us 3 tests, or identity markers for those who have been born again: Do they confess Christ? Do they keep His commandments? Do they love others?
Only when we bring our lives together under the blood of Christ, are we really participating in Fellowship with one another. Confessing our sin doesn’t ruin our Fellowship; it reaffirms it!
Romans 12:12 gives us a clear, compelling compass of just three imperatives for being transformed rather than conformed to the world.
The Lord’s will is that we actively persevere and wrestle with God in our prayers.
There is a growing awareness that Prayer as the power at work in us, is critically missing in Church today. It’s absence needs to be corrected, not accepted.
PRAYER is an interruption, a necessary Pause, in our active lives. But PRAYER changes the world.