Paul’s goal is defined by God. He is aiming at God’s goal for him, let’s learn to do the same.

May God give us the vision to see in suffering for Him and dying to our old lives for Him an opportunity to know and be more like Jesus.

God wants us to know that ‘resurrection power’ is at work in us if we have come to know Jesus by faith.

This practice is well worth the extra time and effort that is required.

Biblical ‘knowing’ is also about becoming like the person that you know.

Are we interested in knowing Jesus or are we satisfied with His knowing and loving us only?

When God justifies us, we are also united to Christ by the Spirit and experience resurrection power.

What are the kinds of things that we can mistakenly put our confidence in for salvation or for God to be more favourable toward us?

Coming to Jesus daily is the single most important thing that any of us can do. Today, and over the next few Wednesdays, I want to remind...

If someone were to ask you, how does someone come into a relationship with God? What would you say?

Paul urges them to ‘rejoice in the Lord’. He says that he is repeating this because it is a ‘safeguard’ for them.

Texts like ours today help to rid us of super-spiritual visions of early church life where we envision it as power and freedom all the time.

“The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”

Having called Epaphroditus, his brother, he now describes him as his ‘co-worker’.

Christians are in God’s family. When we receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour, we are not only justified ...

None of us can do all that we would want, but we can all do what we can!

To love or like Sin is to love or enjoy what Jesus died to save us from! So when we love others, we are joining with Jesus...

Today, and over the next few Wednesdays, I want to remind you of the ‘Come to Jesus Daily Method’ of bible intake.

By nature, we are all selfish. Even after becoming a Christian, self-interest is a weed that needs to be constantly pulled up

It’s a real skill to listen and ask questions. Timothys, take a genuine interest and concern for the welfare of others.