Posts with the tag “truth”

...when the truth is going to cost you something to say — the friendship, the comfort, the awkward silence — do you say it anyway? Most of us think "speaking the truth in love" means being nice while we say hard things. Paul's example is much more than that. He says the hard thing because of love — because a brother was drifting and needed a friend who cared enough to stop him.   Read More

Paul's question is challenging: are we the boat that gets blown around by all of it — or have we grown up into something the wind can't move? Then comes the most important part. Three words: "speaking the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15). That's the whole difference between a church that stays four years old for thirty years and a church that grows up.  Read More

... the truth that does the sanctifying isn't a file of facts you carry around. Think of the difference between a flashlight and a sunrise. A flashlight is yours — you aim it where you want and switch it off when it's inconvenient. The dawn is nothing like that. You don't carry the sunrise. It rises on you, warms you, and shows you the road you're actually standing on.  Read More

Hours before the cross. Jesus stands in Pilate's hall, bound and bleeding, and tells him why he came into the world: "to testify to the truth." And Pilate answers with three words, "What is truth?" then turns around and walks out of the room (John 18:37–38).  Read More

Whether you’ve been part of the church for decades or you’re still finding your footing, this sermon will help you see your faith—and your place in the body of Christ—with fresh clarity. It’s an invitation to move from listening to living, from attendance to participation, and from routine to purpose.  Read More

If you could open the record of your life right now — every thought, every word, every choice — what would you see? It’s sobering to think about. But for God’s people, it’s not meant to terrify — it’s meant to purify. It reminds us that life is short and eternity is sure. Now, as we reach the final month of our vision plan, we come to the moment when the Kingdom reaches its fulfillment — the moment when faith becomes sight.  Read More

The Bible calls us to receive His word “not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:13). But listening isn’t enough—our hearts must be pliable, ready to obey no matter the cost. As King David told his son Solomon, “Serve [God] wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought” (1 Chronicles 28:9). A pliable heart doesn’t say, “I don’t agree” or “That’s outdated.” It says, “God, show me Your way.”  Read More