Most often in life we live and respond based on weak, faulty and incorrect impetus. Without the move of the Holy Spirit in our lives and without keeping in step with the Holy Spirit most people live and choose their responses from/by emotions, circumstances, selfish desires, comparison to other people, approval from other people andContinue reading “How should we live and where should our responses come from?”
Category Archives: Christian Life
We are kept by grace through faith
How many times in your life have you faced situations that you were pretty sure you fumbled? How many circumstance where you felt that you failed, came up short, missed the mark, didn’t try hard enough, weren’t smart enough or some other failing? And so often what is our response to these situations? Many timesContinue reading “We are kept by grace through faith”
The dilemma and the promise of faith
What is it that we have faith in? What exactly are we believing for? Are we believing for things to turn out our way, or the way that is seemingly most favorable to us? Are we believing for events and even other people’s choices, words and behaviors to be positively in our favor? Or isContinue reading “The dilemma and the promise of faith”
Releasing
The question is not what I can produce for the kingdom. Rather the question is what will I release and allow to flow into and through me for the kingdom. Most days we try and figure out what we can do for God. But Jesus reminds us that “by myself I can do nothing”. Nothing IContinue reading “Releasing”
Communicating love
Your actions communicate a message. What message do they speak to the people who “hear” your life? Do they speak a message of impatience? Do your actions speak a message of busyness or perhaps of being harried and hurried? Do your actions communicate a message of superiority and/or of condescension? I want to examine brieflyContinue reading “Communicating love”
How do you treat people?
Here is the measure of my life: how do I treat people? I always know because of my conscience and especially because of the conviction of the Holy Spirit if I have treated people poorly. Furthermore I find myself evaluating my religion and yes even considering the nature of other people’s religion based on howContinue reading “How do you treat people?”
A life of trust
Each and every day of our lives we face opportunities in which we can either affirm our faith in God to freely give us all things that are needed or to choose doubt, worry and fear. It begins as soon as we wake up. If you are anything like me, once that alarm sounds, itContinue reading “A life of trust”
Eternal Implications
What you do and what you say today can have eternal implications. Maybe in your life, maybe in someone else’s. Have you ever considered the weight of our lives? So often we think about how the events, circumstances, relationships and feelings that swirl in our lives effect and affect us, but what about how ourContinue reading “Eternal Implications”
What the world needs now
It’s that time again. You know, when men and women begin to politic and proclaim what they believe about something, because they are certain that their particular political convictions are the hope of America. The rhetoric, the campaigning, the promises, the slogans. All of this and more has begun as the presidential hopefuls seek toContinue reading “What the world needs now”
Discouragement and defeat? Or more than conquerors?
Doubt. Fear. Accusation. Loneliness. Being misunderstood. Being maligned and slandered. Forgotten. Forsaken. Worry. All of these are the waves of defeat and the fiery darts of the enemy that are leveled at God’s children everywhere. Mondays seem to be full of these crashing waves. But then again so do other days. Especially those days whenContinue reading “Discouragement and defeat? Or more than conquerors?”
Pastor Michael Johnson 