Sermons on Patience
When we talk about the prayer of forbearance, we are talking about prayer that is characterized by patience, endurance, and long-suffering (or another way to think about it is would be “suffering long”). In your community groups this past week, you talked about some of the reasons why God does not answer prayer as quickly…
Last week, we were studying from the first half of Galatians 5. We learned that we have freedom in Christ, but that there’s a paradox in that the freedom we have in Christ is the freedom to do what is right. The problem is that we often choose to do what we want rather than…
The most important determining factor in a person’s life is their character. Your character includes all aspects of your inner being— your social awareness, your intelligence quotient (IQ), your emotional quotient (EQ), and your spiritual maturity. If someone is deficient in one of these areas it will limit their ability to be the person that God wants them to be! So Paul encourages Timothy to reject his immature tendencies of adolescents and diligently pursue the heart of God.