A message from the series "Pastor Sowell." Even those who haven’t experienced it personally yearn for the ideal of home as the place where and people with whom we experience healthy identity, acceptance, support, and growth. We need homes not only for physical, emotional, psychological, and social health, but also spiritual.
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A message from the series "Pastor Sowell." How we start a new year depends on how we approach life: either burdened with Regret or inspired for Renewal. In Scripture, the Holy Spirit reveals there are important differences between Regret and Renewal.
A message from the series "Promised Messiah." Christian faith rests on, centers in, and flows from the answer to the question of Who Jesus is. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah. The Spirit reveals Who Jesus is through His royal genealogy, through Joseph’s experience of the events surrounding His birth, through the visit of the Magi, and through Herod’s hostility.
A message from the series "Holiday Messages." Christian faith rests on, centers in, and flows from the answer to the question of Who Jesus is. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah. The Spirit reveals Who Jesus is through His royal genealogy, through Joseph’s experience of the events surrounding His birth, and through the visit of the magi.
A message from the series "Promised Messiah." Christian faith rests on, centers in, and flows from the answer to the question of Who Jesus is. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah. The Spirit reveals Who Jesus is through His genealogy and through Joseph’s experience of the events surrounding His birth.
A message from the series "Promised Messiah." Many people insist that Jesus of Nazareth was a really good man who was changed into a myth by his followers because of their hopeless desperation. In the opening verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus is the Promised Messiah, Who is the Magnificent Hope.
A message from the series "Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life." Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both divine intervention and deliberate attention. God will do His part. Will you do yours? The weeds of discontent and dissatisfaction that compete with gratitude for space in your life and the emotional and spiritual resources you need for gratitude to thrive need to be pulled up by their roots of self-centered expectations. And the soil of your life, which is your soul, needs to be prepared to produce and sustain gratitude. God removes toxic sin from and infuses life into dead souls through our faith in Christ. And our Lord nourishes living souls as we continually feed on His words for spiritual nutrients. Living souls are prepared for us to plant the seeds of gratitude.
A message from the series "Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life." Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both divine intervention and deliberate attention. God will do His part. Will you do yours? The weeds of discontent and dissatisfaction that compete with gratitude for space in your life and the emotional and spiritual resources you need for gratitude to thrive need to be pulled up by their roots of self-centered expectations. And the soil of your life needs to be prepared to produce and sustain gratitude.
A message from the series "Cultivating Gratitude in the Garden of Your Life." If your life is a garden, what’s its condition? Is your life littered with the discards of indulgence and regret? Or adorned with the bounty of righteousness and gratitude? Cultivating gratitude in the garden of your life requires both deliberate attention and divine intervention. God will do His part. Will you do yours?
