As we remember the commitment and sacrifice of our fallen soldiers in all wars fought for our freedom on this Memorial Day weekend, we will examine Paul’s use of the military metaphor that teaches our role as soldiers of Christ.
We pray for many things such as health for ourselves and for others. Do we pray for the pursuit of excellence in our spiritual journey? This lesson explores a prayer of Paul for us to value this quality.
We all know about God’s fatherly qualities but are we familiar with His motherly qualities? This lesson explores these and see how blessed motherhood is in light of God’s likeness.
In almost every letter Paul wrote, he prayed for the recipients. We will examine one of these prayers as if we were the original addressees.
Our spiritual journey begins with the new birth. We begin as babes in Christ and progress to spiritual adults. We will reflect on this analogy in this message.
Paul lists the consequences if Christ had not been raised from the dead. We will look at the blessings since He has been raised!
The Rich Young Ruler went to Jesus looking for his spiritual blind spot that might keep him out of heaven. Will we go to Jesus looking for ours? This message explores how to spot them and how we might respond.
The final fruit we are to produce is self-control. It might be the hardest to produce for most of us. But if we harvest the previous fruit we will harvest self-control. Let’s explore this further.
This quality is admired by the best people of the world. Humility, meekness are not signs of weakness but strength. Let’s explore this beautiful trait of the child of God.
Developing trust is a process. It is earned. Breaking it may mean we may never get it back. The believer learns faithfulness from the Lord and from others. This fruit of the Spirit grows from the other fruits. We will explore this valued virtue in this message.