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Growing in Grace

And beside this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity (2nd Peter 1:5).

 The Apostle Peter is giving a listing of how to grow in grace; these are faith actions and must be practiced continually on a daily basis. God has empowered and enabled us to succeed in these tasks as growing and mature Christians. God will never tell us to do something He hasn’t empowered us to do Read More

Stay Connected To God

But God said to him, you fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared? So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God (Luke 12:20 -New American Standard Bible). 

Jesus’ instructions to  His disciples then and now is wherever our treasure is, that is where our hearts will be. Beware of where your heart is, there is a space in our hearts reserved for God, and Him only; when we place people and things in His reserved area, we have made them idols and gods. God has instructed His people to have no other god before Him. Read More

Warning

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Isaiah 24:5.

Not only the people suffered from their sins, but even the land also suffered from bad crops and crime. Today we see the results of sin in our own land, pollution, crime, and poverty. Sin affects every aspect of society so extensively that even those faithful to God suffer. Read More