The Great Commission
Jesus said, “Go and make disciples …” Are you doing what He said to do?
Jesus said, “Go and make disciples …” Are you doing what He said to do?
God is always there and available to help in any way that a person needs, not just physical needs but mental and spiritual needs.
In His obedience, Jesus lived a sinless life and carried our sins in His body on the cross as a ransom for every person who would believe and receive.
While His cross dealt with our sins, His resurrection spoke directly to the death element filling us and looming over our future.
Seek to shine even in your trials and struggles.
We have an open door into personal relationship with the King of Kings, not just to observe, but to learn Who He really is and His Way.
The true fountain of life springs up in the believer as one sees the light of God in Jesus.
The very Author of the Bible started teaching it to me Himself, and to this day, I’m still learning from Him.
We continually go back to the dead places looking for comfort and peace.
If Jesus is your King, don’t cower to the crowd of accusers.
Blessed are His children.
We can CARE more about building a relationship and less about having all the answers.
Jesus is the Savior sent from the Father above.
He bought us back from our grime-filled life, and we are now forever His.
Salvation of soul is Messiah’s reward for those who respond to His Call.
Every person will, at one time or another, acknowledge the majesty of God.
The birth of Jesus Christ speaks of reconciliation, it speaks of God’s love, and it speaks of a hope that bonds us back together in God’s family.
We have a different ark that will do greater work of rescue.
The most staid, logical person will suffer IQ reduction when emotions get involved.
The first disciples were forerunners for millions who would follow their example.
It started in the garden as sin entered through deceit.
The New Testament epistles contain everything the saved person needs to know to live a fulfilled Christian life.
I am the door, the way to God.
Can we really believe someone “gave their life to Jesus” when there is no change in their life or lifestyle thereafter?
I will be a Father to you and yours, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
As snakes shed their covering to produce new growth, scales fell from his eyes, and he was filled with the Holy Ghost.
We’re called to enter into a faith that’s abstract and yet so very concrete and solid!
Jesus is the Savior and the Lover of our souls!
His death and resurrection was the kiss that covered sin.
The Light of the World has come to give us new life and He sends the Holy Spirit as our guiding light.
Video teaching: Are you on the right path?
Deception started in the Garden and is still at work today. The one who was cunning then still leads mankind astray.
A life of choice to follow our Savior.
Jesus is the Savior sent from the Father above.
The devil can’t change the Master’s plan.
All heaven cheered for the battle was won.
I have been awakened by the power of the Resurrection . . . awakened to live a life devoted to the way of Christ. So yea — I’m woke, won’t you join me?
There will be challenges in this life and there will always be a cost associated with being a true disciple of Christ.
Allow God complete control of your life, then live each day aligned with His Word and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus sacrificed His holiness to be the offering to cleanse our soul.
You’re listening now to what He says; you no longer fear or have to dread.
When I focus on the heart of the matter, salvation is actually pretty simple.
Where is the peace in the midst of the chatter?
God wants each and every one of us to be equipped with the gifts of the Spirit, so we can do all He has planned for us.
Not only can we enjoy His inseparable love, but we will forever bask in His glorious presence!
Eternity’s final destinations hinge on each person’s free will choice—to choose Jesus (and have their names written in the Book of Life) or to choose against Jesus.
Grace removes the cloak of condemnation, guilt, and shame our wayward family members have worn for so many years.
Those who greet these returning ones with the heart of the Father, not the shame and judgment of the older brother, will enter a collaborative Kingdom relationship.
O come let us adore Him sing praises to the King, daily He gives you all of Him, what will to Him you bring?
Enjoy the celebration of My birth; It’s a reminder of all of mankind’s now sacred worth.
Enjoy this sweet prose about the true meaning of Christmas.
Because we were made in his image, by design our existence can only find its true orientation when we are in harmony with him.
God came for you, You are good enough, you are wanted, cared for, important to Him, and you never have to earn your Savior’s love.
Because this gospel message is so simple, people try to make it complex.
Jesus is the source of living water that quenches dry, thirsty, wilted souls.
It is time for us to release the heart of Jesus into the atmosphere of hatred and deception.
What God looks for is someone who is willing, someone who leans on His strength, and does things His way.
“Out of control”, “monster”, “destructive” were stuck to him every day… but none of them was his name.
For the last 2,000 years, the uncompromising truth of Jesus as the only way to God has caused men and women to lay down their lives to bring others to Christ.
What should we be telling someone when God is moving upon them to move them to salvation?
As we move toward Him, awkward and faltering, He exuberantly reaches out to us with His arms wide open and an enormous smile of joyous welcome.
We all have our own lens through which we look. They are assumptions, reactions,
and judgments that influence how we see the world and its people.
When God’s love truly dwells within, we will find it easier to extend grace to those
who don’t think like us, worship like us, pray like us, or vote like us — even within the Church.
I hope you haven’t, but this afternoon that is exactly what I visualized as it felt like my peace, vision, and even breath was being sucked out of my head.
Here I’ll continue to take a look at the differences between the rapture and the second coming,
this time by heading to Matthew 24:40-41, a section that is often attributed to being the rapture of the church.
Our relational walk with the three-in-one God results in a three-in-one journey.
When we seek God’s Holy and Secret Place…we will find a refreshment and a renewal and a place of safety that cannot be found anywhere on Earth.
They came like a river to confess the Lordship of Jesus over their souls.
If Jesus sat down with us for some one-on-one time, what would we ask Him? More importantly, how would we respond to His questions?
There was a moment when the world passed from the idyllic and perfect, to the ironic and tragic.
Kingdom rule is with the open heart. This is why you must love your enemies. It is also why you must stay close.
Jesus invites everyone to spend eternity with Him in Heaven and sacrificed His life to make that possible. Yet, He leaves the choice to each individual.
It’s amazing how much we can trust the Lord…
especially when we are put in the position where we have to totally depend on Him.
Those who have acknowledged their need of God, their need for forgiveness, those who have repented; these we call believers.
The second coming is the one we have yet to experience.
We anticipate the time when Our Lord will come in all His glory to set everything right.
We live between the early and latter rains in this Advent season of the world,
waiting for the fulfillment of what was begun at Christmas.
When the opportunity arises to lead someone to Christ, the first thing that happens for most of us is that we immediately get nervous and feel uneasy.
Drink deeply from the well of salvation and call on God from a heart that is full of confidence―because of the mighty Christmas Gift.
Man and woman, serving the Lord together, was demonstrated so beautifully at Jesus’s presentation in the temple.
When scripture speaks into the life of a person, it cuts in like a surgeon’s scalpel, in order to bring healing and life to the person in need.
Chronos and Kairos are about to converge!
Your attitude toward the things written in the Word says something about what Jesus is to you.
We are called to be witnesses. In legal terminology, when a “witness” is called in court, he shares his “testimony.”
Simply knowing truth is not the same as owning it. There is a world of difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge.
Where are you standing today? On whose side? With God or with the world? Have you made your choice?
The seed of the righteous will be redeemed by an appointment with God. He has set a time for His power to come upon them.
I have found when He speaks things like TruthMatters…it is because He is about to expand my thinking, work on my heart, and pour out revelation.
This morning as I was praying, I felt like God showed me something…I had a mental image of a huge sleeping giant.
This method uses the full story of scripture to lay out God’s beautiful, original plan; the problem of sin in humanity, and the reason for which Christ came into the world.
Don’t become so confident and pickled in modern, so-called enlightenment that you forget it’s all temporary.
Stay thankful, my children; I’ve got you covered; there is still more for you to always discover.
All of our witnessing is in vain if we do not come to the point where we actually make them an offer to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Just as gossip ceases to exist when people stop sharing it, so does the gospel. It becomes useless; having no effect in bringing people into salvation.
Is He really ever too late? Or is He always precisely on time when we call to Him, even when we think He has abandoned us?
God is all about relationships. He created us in His image.
If you were completely confident in God’s unchanging, irrevocable love for you, would it change how you walked?
Isn’t it wild how God can use such a simple word to bring revelation, identity, and freedom?
This system of competition, rivalry, and classification inevitably put us on ladders, where we rank everything from our gender to our attractiveness to our shoe choice.
There is no need to hide for a garment has been provided for you.
It was the crusade that answered the burning question: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” The emphatic answer is, absolutely no one.