Category Archives: Grace

The Strong’s dictionary of New Testament words defines grace in this way…

“of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the Divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude)”

God’s grace manifests itself in many ways – kindness, graciousness, benevolence…etc. It is always free and undeserved. Even if man were to be good enough to merit His grace, merit is NOT God’s motive for offering it to us.

At the end of the day though, virtually all expressions of grace can be summed up as, “God’s influence upon our hearts and its expression in our lives resulting especially in gratitude.”

Nailed Cross

Nailed to His cross

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Paul stresses the need for ongoing Faith to the Colossian believers, as well as the need to stay established in the truth.

Both Jews and Essense were influencing this church to consider the aesetic practices of neglect of the body and observance of the externals of the ceremonial Law of the Old Testament for righteousness.

Paul explains that such things have been removed out the way and nailed to the cross with Jesus our Messiah.

In this message we also address the misunderstanding of Paul’s words regarding obeserving sabbath days. This he clearly meant in relation to the other laws he listed which were all celemonial and exterior in nature. ALL Feast days had associated sabbath rests which were in no way related to the Sabbath day declared Holy by God on the 7th day of Creation and the 4th commandment of the Law.

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Laying Hold Mystery

Laying Hold of the Mystery of Christ in Us

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In the letter of Paul to the Colossian believers, he stresses the importance of being found well pleasing to God.

That pleasure is directly connected to the mystery God has kept hidden in Christ from before time began. It is the mystery of Christ in us!

As Michael Card so clearly stated in his song, Live this Mystery “The Mystery of life in Christ, is that Christ can live in you!”

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Overcoming forgiven

Overcoming, not just forgiven

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“Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.” A familiar phrase which has done more harm than good.

We have been conditioned in the modern church to accept defeat as a norm in the Christian life.

Yes we are forgiven, but the greatest message of the gospel is not one of forgiveness but one of overcoming!

As we conform to Jesus, sin continues to lose its grip on us. We begin living from victory to victory rather than from confession of sin to confession of sin.

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Derailed life peace

Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:42 — 134.1MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS   Sunday 12/03/23 Title: Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit Message Video Player Message Audio Player: ***Video is HERE*** Share this:      Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit We have been going through Romans 8, seeking to identify ways of sensitizing our hearts to the voice and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. One of the ways that we identified of course, is how our fleshly passions serve as an obstacle to our intimacy with God. That anyone who walks […]

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Harmony Spirit

The Harmony between our spirit and the Holy Spirit

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The Harmony between our spirit and the Holy Spirit

Series: In Pursuit of Relational Knowledge

Learning how to become sensitive to the inward promptings of the Holy Spirit is imperative for muturing in Christ. He leads us into godliness and away from godlessness, to obedinece and away from sin, towards conformity to God’s will in our lives and away from aimless wandering.

In this message we learn our lessons form Paul, who illustrate simple ways this is accomplished in our daily life in his letter to the Christians in Rome.

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