Spiritual Growth
No Pain, No Gain: Don’t Short Circuit True Spiritual Growth in Your Life
Matthew 24:8 NLTBut all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come. All growth takes pain. We’ve all heard the saying, “no pain, no gain” as this was used about bodybuilding, it is a biblical principle. For Christians, the pain we must suffer from growing is dying to ourselves, daily. […]
Spiritual Growth is Only Possible Through Surrender During Your Troubles
James 1:2-4 NLTDear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing […]
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back? Frustrating Right?
‘And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the […]