#2 Take Responsibility for Sin
Yesterday I mentioned that Sin is pleasurable. It really is, it feels good, even great, in the moment. But it's a pleasure that is temporary, and requires more sin in order to feed the pleasure. We all know what I mean.
Circumstances often trigger our sin and shape the form it takes, but they don't cause it. The root cause of our sin is always our hearts and their sinful desires. We sin because we believe lies about God, instead of believing (trusting) God's Word, and also because we choose to worship idols instead of God. An doesn't have to be a wood carving of some god. It's anything that takes the place God deserves in our lives.
continue reading "#2 Take Responsibility for Sin"#1 Winning the Battle Over Sin...
I'd like to do a short series online to help you process, and hopefully in some areas of your life, if you need to, win the battle over sin.
First of all how do you know something is sin in your life? The simple test is this, has it mastered you? Is it something that controls you? Do you run to it as a way to cope? Are you unable to stop it on willpower alone? (that means you've tried, but you keep coming back to it?
Todays' thought on sin - "SIN IS PLEASURABLE - IT FEELS GOOD"
Until we admit the above statement, we have no hope of even coming close to saying no to sin. Sin feels good, in the moment and for a moment. It's why we do it, it's why we keep coming back to it. Christians usually feel a sense of shame about their sin. In our same we want to stop. Except, of course, we don't! We still enjoy the sin too much to let it go...
continue reading "#1 Winning the Battle Over Sin..."ON PRAYER...
"Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that."
Bill Hybels
Tool #1
Hello everyone, one of my goals as your pastor in 2012 is to give you as many tools as possible, to help you in as many areas of your life as possible.
I'd like to begin by give you a simple tool to help you begin spending 15minutes with God a day.
Here's the plan...
continue reading "Tool #1"Welcome to 2012!
What can you expect among Port of Grace in 2012. An intently focused commitment to two things. Loving God and Loving People.
Everything we do this year, and we plan to do as much as we can, will be focused on helping us to do these two things wholeheartedly.
continue reading "Welcome to 2012!"