When the Christian attempts to supply a Biblical name to this “second wind” phenomenon, it’s hard, because it seems to be a mixture of a handful of key ingredients—faith, hope, joy, and patience. And when these four ingredients blend together, it lifts the believing soul up out of the mire and back into a full sprint.
God loves big faith. He loves it when believers actually believe that He will do big things for those that ask big things of Him. Let’s join with Elisha in saying, “I want double!”
We must labor to remember. We must discipline our mind to hold on to the wondrous works of God.
Dogs have a special way of revealing to us dimensions of the Kingdom of Heaven that are hard to comprehend otherwise. But, the reason they demonstrate these astounding qualities is in order that we might be stirred by the Spirit of God to say, “Lord, make me dogged, just like that!”
As Christians, is it possible to know for certain that we are “in the faith”, or not? Paul exhorts us to “examine ourselves” to this very end — but what does such an examination look like? In this message, Eric Ludy takes a deep dive into John’s words from 1st John with the singular agenda of making very simple what, to many of us, has become a very complex question — Am I a genuine Christian or not?
In and amidst this hour of shifting sand and ever-altering social landscape, the Church of Jesus Christ is unsteady…