Posts with the tag “spiritual-maturity”

James 1:2–4 says count it all joy when you fall into various trials, because the testing of your faith is producing endurance — and endurance, allowed to finish its work, leaves you mature and complete, lacking nothing. That's almost offensive at first read. Joy, in the middle of the trial I would never have chosen? Yes. Not because the pain is joyful, but because the project God is working through the pain is.  Read More

Sunday is the first week of a five-week series called Maturity in the Body. Across May, we'll ask one steady question together: are we growing up the way our Father longs for us to grow up? May 3 is where that question lands hardest. The next four Sundays, we walk the path of how it actually happens — pressing on (Phil. 3), the trials that grow us (James 1), what we have to put down (1 Cor. 13), and the body that displays Jesus (Col. 1).   Read More

God works as we work. He does what we cannot do. Make a commitment today to do what you can do – move forward in your life toward spiritual maturity – and then rely on God to take care of the rest.  Read More