What the Bible Says About Suffering

We continue with our series on What The Bible Says. In case you’ve missed the others, you can review them by clicking below: What the Bible says about sin. What the Bible says about salvation. What the Bible says about death (and dying). We will use three questions to guide our reflection. First, read John […]

We’re a Community of Believers

  Vital Churches are a community of believers!  In other words, they thrive to look like the first community of believers we read about in Acts 2: 42-47,  And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many […]

Hate to Love

  “Hate to Love” is the next in our series. The other reflections we’ve studied so far as Fear to Hope, Anger to Gratitude, and Sadness to Joy. Hate is the opposite to love. That’s why it is important to understand hate, which will enable us to better work on ourselves.  Here’s how most […]

Sadness to Joy

  “Sadness to Joy” is the next in our series, after talking about “Fear to Hope,” and “Anger to Gratitude.” First, you should know this, [bctt tweet=”Sadness is a live emotion that can serve to remind us of what matters to us, what gives our life meaning.” username=””]   Clearly, we don’t have to dismiss […]

Anger to Gratitude

  Moving from anger to gratitude isn’t an easy thing to do for all people. Both are two feelings we experience every time there is a change within or around us. [bctt tweet=”Feelings and emotions are our human way to respond to changes.” username=””]  Previously, I talked about moving from fear to hope, which […]

Celebrating Easter During The COVID Pandemic

  Celebrating Easter this year, and during the COVID Pandemic, makes it so unique, unlike all the others I can remember.  So, what makes it then so unique?  There are many reasons why Easter is so unique this year.    The Element of Fear   The first reason why Easter is so unique this year […]

Be Thankful for Who God Is

Showing gratitude isn’t something we do only for ourselves. We do it primarily because it is what God wants us to do.  Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5: 18. ESV).  In my previous articles, we studied the following:  How to show […]

Be Thankful For Your Past

  Being thankful requires us to show gratitude for all the people we’ve met in our lives. It also means we have to be grateful for who we are.  In addition to the above, we also need to be thankful for our past.  The reason is that people are connected, one way or another, with much of what […]

Be Thankful For “Self”

  If there’s one thing we all can control is how to respond to whatever happens to us.  In every situation we go through in life, we will always have the choice to decide how to respond. In other words, what we choose to do shapes our feelings and emotions about ourselves, others and our […]

Church: A Community Built on Serving Others

Churches grow when they understand that they have to serve people. Of course, to get to that point, the Church has to lay down the foundation first, and which implies the following: prayer, the Word (Scripture), and committed leaders.   I will be using Ephesians 4: 10-16 from the New International Version.    Serving is about Jesus Christ, not us. […]