“Let it never be said that we cannot know whether a Christian really loves Christ. It can be known. It can be discovered. The proof can be seen. You have heard them this very day. Love to the Lord Jesus Christ is no hidden, secret, unseen thing. It is like the light – it will …
Last Friday, the topic of this blog was the women who discovered the empty tomb, and left to go report what they found and heard from the angel. The women were filled with fear and great joy. On their way, they met Jesus who gave them the simple message, "Rejoice." Yet they likely did not …
A Climb Free post - from a series of posts that represent a deeper dive into the truth about relating to our God. This series is on the Kingdom of our God and how we gain entry into it and live in it. Five previous posts are up on the blog, including here. The purposes …
Part two of a series on three of the purposes of our God in sending His Son to earth. Image via Pixabay. “God created and redeemed man for this purpose, that man might be the container into which He could dispense Himself. In the whole universe—time, space, and eternity—the center of God’s economy is to …
Image via Pixabay Just what was our God thinking when He sent His only beloved Son to earth? Sent Him to be born of a human mother. Sent Him to live among the fallen race, hunted by forces of evil from day one, and on the run much of His adult life? Sent Him to …
Image via Pixabay “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.” 1 John 1:5-6 “John does …
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” – John, the apostle Light is a fundamental feature of the work our God is doing in the world. Light is a metaphor for our God, indicating purity and righteousness. It …
Image via Pexels “The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one….” John 17:22-23 We are living in times that could be characterized by the term, “disunity.” That characterization is perhaps …
Part 3 in a series on finding joy. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, …
"Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave …
Without Limit 