In giving His disciples the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus provides an example of how to faithfully and effectively speak to our Heavenly Father, with the assurance He knows and hears us.
Before giving His disciples the model prayer, Jesus provided four principles for prayer according to the will of God.
If we as God’s children are going to evangelize the world in which we live, we are going to have to come to our “senses.” What sense does it take to be an evangelist?
Why do some who have obeyed the gospel eventually leave the church? In most cases, it is not an abrupt giving up on the life of faith, but a gradual drifting away from the Lord and His church.
Some do not appreciate the Old Testament as they should, but think what we would be missing without it: the Creation, the Flood, the Ten Commandments and Psalm 23, to name just a few. Jesus and the New Testament writers relied heavily on the Old Testament, and so must we.
In our culture today as people grow in doubt about God, one of the chief weapons to grow that doubt is to raise the question as to whether a loving, gracious and merciful God could send people away from Him forever into a place of eternal punishment. How fair could that be?
Having a clear picture of our eternal home with God will influence our daily decisions. This morning, we want to think about eternity and the hope that is an anchor for the soul.