1 Timothy 6:11-21 Sometimes people are very active at work and in the gym, but spiritually they are couch potatoes. This passage urges us as Christians to get up off the couch and get active spiritually, and stay active – a
1 Timothy 6:11-21 Sometimes people are very active at work and in the gym, but spiritually they are couch potatoes. This passage urges us as Christians to get up off the couch and get active spiritually, and stay active – a
Where does our joy and strength come from? Particularly when times are hard? The people of God are to look to him for all their joy. It is their duty and delight. For us today as we live in this world as citizens of the next, we need to have our souls refreshed and strengthened by the joy of the Lord.
Nehemiah 4 Nehemiah faces opposition to the building of the walls, in the same way we are expected to face opposition to the building of the people of God, but with trust in the sufficient promises of God we shall persevere.
2 Timothy 4:1-18 The Christian life is a long-distance race. It is a fierce battle against the world, the flesh and the devil. How can we sure we’ll make it to heaven?
Ephesians 6:10-22 “Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus, going on before”. As Christians we are soldiers in a battle against spiritual forces of evil. But how do we fight and engage in spiritual warfare?
2 Timothy 4:1-18 Fast-forward in your mind. You’ve just been told you’ve got a few months to live. You’re lying in bed in the hospice. Will you look back with regret, realising you pursued things of no lasting value, or will you look back on a life invested for eternity? Will you look forward with fear, or with just a vague hope of some hereafter, or with certain expectation of an eternal future with God?
Joshua 1 An Ironman is a long-distance triathlon – 3.86km swim in open water, followed by 180km on a bike, and then a marathon to finish off. It’s not for the fainthearted. But it takes just as much strength and courage to be a Christian. God calls us to be strong and courageous – and tells us how to do it.