Tag: faith

Suffering Wisely and Well: The Grief of Job and the Grace of God

How to Walk Faithfully Through Suffering

Why does God allow suffering? The pain of suffering can be overwhelmingly mysterious, but the Bible does provide answers. Throughout Scripture, God allows trials in order to accomplish specific purposes in the lives of his people. When faced with suffering they experience spiritual growth; repentance from sin; or, as in the Old Testament story of Job, the chance to demonstrate […]

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Faith, Hope, Baptism

Caution! Maintenance Work On Unity

Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace (Eph. 4:3). To better grasp our verse for the day, we must look at verses 1-6. Every believer came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through the invitation and convicting work of the Holy Spirit. Irrespective of your race, gender, age, accomplishments, or failures, the […]

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Free Lunch is For Real

Free Lunch is For Real

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast” (Eph. 2:8,9). We are in a season of holidays when children and adults alike are looking with hope for some gifts that will make their holidays merry. […]

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Faith Drives away Fear

Faith Drives away Fear

Let go of your fears and allow your FAITH to come alive Fear steals the joy of living. It’s not enough that we hold Christian truths in theory. We need to live them daily by being led by the Holy Spirit. We all need to let go of our fears in order to allow FAITH to come alive. Pastor: T […]

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Fatima: The Power of a Name

Veteran actor Harvey Keitel co-stars in the new film, which revisits the story of the Virgin Mary appearing to three children in Portugal. Marco Pontecorvo’s new film Fatima, a drama based on the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Portugal in 1917 and the three young seers who experienced them, debuted August 28 with balanced but mostly-favorable reviews in major […]

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Don’t Just Suffer!

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God; and the other prisoners were listening to them. Acts 16:25 Today many people have given up on God because of the ‘bad things that are happening to good people’ and the much evil going on in our world and God seems not to be doing anything at all. […]

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Why Do Young People Leave the Faith?

Why do young people leave the Faith? I was asked that question the other day, and I replied, off the cuff, that it was two things: Their imaginations had not been formed by the Faith and our magnificent heritage of arts and letters, and they wanted to have sex. Most of the reasons that people give are either variations of […]

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How to Score Big with God!

Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did – with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the law of Moses. 2 Kings 23:25. Israel had a few good kings who started and ended well according to God’s assessment. […]

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Lack of Faith?

The apostle Paul exhorts Christians to “walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). What we see here is a contrast between truth and perception—what we know and believe to be true and what we perceive to be true. This is where the Christian struggle with a lack of faith finds its basis. The main reason why so […]

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ECWA Weekly Spiritual Digest

ECWA Weekly Spiritual Digest: Is Faith a Blind Leap that is Required of Christians?

by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot | You will be in good company with all the heroes of

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