The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
They see “a sinner,” someone who doesn’t belong, someone who has interrupted an important dinner for important people, someone who a prophet of God could never care about, someone who should not be making a scene. But they don’t see her.
The Apostle Paul certainly believed this and encouraged the Christians at Colossae to have a life permeated with thanks. Throughout this short and powerful epistle, the apostle admonished these first-century Christians to live a life that overflows with thanksgiving.
Christians are in a position to understand and apply the “Golden Rule”, as are none others.
Psalms is far more than a book from which to pull pithy statements for greeting cards; it is a divinely inspired model of approaching God and dealing with life’s problems.
Walking with God means to
be faithful, obedient and committed to Him. Or, as Micah wrote in Micah 6:8,
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of
you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Our natural inclination during these periods of waiting is anxiety at the uncertainty they possess. Here are some things to consider the next time you are made to wait for something in your life.
This gets to the heart of the problem of brethren who don't study the word of God publicly or privately. They simply aren't interested.
While the writers wished for the defeat of evil, they asked God to be the one who did the punishment. This allowed them the privilege of doing good toward an enemy, while at the same time asking God to be the one to take vengeance.
For one thing, our feelings are not under our direct control. If you’ve ever tried to command yourself to feel a certain way, you know how futile that exercise is. Our feelings are an indirect by-product of our thinking and our doing;
