Church: A Life-Giving Community
God’s Word can help us build community, in addition to prayer, as we studied it in our last article. The following lines will help you first understand why we all need God’s Word and how powerful God’s Word is. Then, we’ll see how the Word of God can build community. Take a look at this […]
Heathy Churches Are Disciple-Making
Healthy Churches are disciple-making, in addition to being hospitable, inviting, and generous. Let us read Matthew 28, 19-20, Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. Jesus came near and spoke to them, “I’ve received all authority […]
Healthy Churches Are Generous
Healthy Churches are generous, in addition to being hospitable, and inviting. They have members to whom giving is a part of who they are as a Church. Let’s start with this Scripture as the foundation for our short reflection, The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully […]
Healthy Churches Have Members Who Are Inviting
Healthy Churches have members who are inviting. Let’s look at Romans 15: 7-9. It’s a passage that you may have heard of a lot, especially these words: Welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. ESV. Since the New Testament original texts were written in Greek, the original Greek word […]
Hospitality is a Marker for a Healthy Church
Hospitality is a marker for a Healthy Church. What’s a Healthy church? Good question! We should start defining what a healthy church may mean. Of course, the concept of “healthy churches” is found nowhere in the Bible. The only place, however, and where we can get an idea of how a Healthy should operate is […]
Community Helps You Experience Healing
In addition to faith, the renewal of the mind, and a sense of freedom, community also plays a role in help us experience personal healing. In my previous articles, I discussed the following: How your faith can help you experience healing. How renewing your mind can help you experience healing. How having a sense of […]
Freedom Helps You Experience Healing
Another critical element of personal healing is a sense of freedom. That’s in addition to faith and renewing of the mind, which I discussed in my previous articles. Find them here: Faith helps you experience healing. Your mind helps you experience healing. So, what kind of freedom do we then need for us to experience […]
Is Church Failing You? And, What Do You Do About It?
In this video (Facebook Live), I talk about what to do when you feel that the Church is failing you. I share four tips, I believe, can help you to answer the two questions. Also, it’s been a while I haven’t gone live on Facebook. I am now back. Here are my four tips that […]
Emotions and How to Handle Them (Part Four) – Ep. #12
In this video, I conclude our series, “Emotions and how to handle them, as Christians.” The last emotion to reflect on is “Fear.” Here are the other emotions I’ve talked about so far: Anger. Sadness. Guilt and Same. Just like the other feelings/emotions, fear also has triggers. Instead of three, fear has four: Place. Time. […]
Emotions and How to Handle Them (Part Three)
In this video, I continue talking about emotions and how to handle them with a focus on sadness. You can review the other videos in the series below: Guilt and shame. Anger. Sadness, just like the other emotions, also deals with three triggers: Space. Time. Your experience or how you interact with both time and […]
