This understanding brings the resurrection of Jesus from “back there somewhere” right into the here and now. Every day gets to be Resurrection Day in your heart as the Holy Spirit brings you right into contact with the power and the presence of the risen Lord.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
If we didn’t know how this ended, we’d be really worried. And even though most of us do know how this ends, I trust that this passage's plot twist will encourage us with God’s power to do what He wants in spite of our best efforts to get in His way.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Sodom and Gomorrah, set within the bigger story of the Bible, is about fire and brimstone—and mercy. If you know Jesus, this is a mercy you’ve tasted, a mercy that you need fresh each morning, and a mercy that you get to share with a needy world.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Today we stop and remember that before Sodom was destroyed, it was interceded for. We marvel that God deliberately gave Abraham the opportunity to do this. And from this we learn a great deal about prayer in our own lives today.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Throughout their generations, God remained faithful—while Abraham’s offspring, God’s people, remained unfaithful. Far from blameless, they kept breaking the covenant instead of keeping it. And how does God respond? By being faithful.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
The story of redemption is full of upsets and unexpected turns and big things happening with the smallest of people. This is nowhere as clear as with the call of Abram... and us.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
The Babel-builders had a plan for a city and a tower. God had a plan for the global glory of His worthy Son. Guess whose plan succeeded?由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Just because we're familiar with the story of Noah's ark doesn't mean we're familiar with how Genesis actually tells the story.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Being a disciple of Jesus isn't something—as in, something we add to our lives or hold alongside of other relationships or loyalties in our life. Being a disciple of Jesus is everything. Jesus takes it all, and every other relationship or loyalty falls under His Lordship.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
We can live for our best life now, and miss out on what’s really important, or we can be content with a difficult life now for the sake of an eternal reward.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Are we willing for the hatred of the world? Do we really believe that to live is Christ, and to die is gain? Are we willing to take up our crosses and lose our lives because we believe that there is no true life outside of knowing Christ?由Emmanuel Baptist Church
It’s not a question of whether we'll participate in the mission or not. If we are a follower of Jesus, that decision has been made for us already. The only question is what part in the mission we’ll play.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
We don’t want to be like the Pharisees, who stayed in their holy huddles and never got close to anybody they saw as dirty or bad. We want to be like Matthew, who got up and followed Jesus, and then invited his fellow patients to join him at the wedding feast.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
The hard call of discipleship is a mercy, breaking us free from being satisfied with lesser things and freeing us to treasure the most valuable Person in the universe.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
By removing some of sin’s effects, Jesus announced that He had come to deal with the root cause. He tears down the signpost of sickness in order to show us that he’s come to remove that which the signpost pointed to: sin itself.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
We are at a very unique point in our life together as a church. A time where we get to ask, not “How have we always done things?”, but “How should we do things?” We get to ask, not “Who were we?”, but rather “Who should we be?” We get to ask not, “What was?”, but rather “What should be? What kind of a church should we be as we step into the future …
Jesus expects His disciples to be content and patient and self-controlled. But Jesus enables His disciples to be these things as He fills them with His Spirit.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
Humility is better than pride in every way, because, just as God is opposed to the proud, so He is full of grace toward the humble.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
There should be no such thing as a Christian fool, because of the way the gospel has transformed us into teachable seekers of wisdom.由Emmanuel Baptist Church
A godly man brings the blessing of confidence and safety to those whom he cares for. He creates a safe harbour for his children to flourish.由Emmanuel Baptist Church