Hopefully, most of us know what it is like to have a really good best friend. Someone you may have met in your early school days and were as thick and thieves. Spending time with them whenever you could get a chance, going on road trips, working on projects of shared interest. Being there to encourage one other or being there when you have a break up. Knowing someone so close you know what their response to a situation would be or what they would enjoy. Or the best, sharing those inside jokes that other people that hang around don't get the joke. That amazing friendship that lasted the test of time and events is amazingly special.
That is the relationship believers are to willfully choose to have with God; and that is the topic of today's Ministry Moment with Pastor John Samuel Barnett
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(From 2012MAY20 - CHO-04 - Spirit Filled Believers are Learning How to Friend God for Life)
Why isn't the Bible just a collection of rules but is also stories of men and women whose lives are revealed to us by God? Because we can see real men and women who lived in a specific time and a specific place and we can see them as examples of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If you read the short but full letter by Jude he tells a group of people to contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 1:3). Why did Jude do that? Why not charge people to understand the truths of God's revelations for themselves and that's good...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For us Americans, the concept of "lord" and "sovereign" are a foreign concept. We see it in old Camelot movies or referred to in episodes of Downton Abbey. Yet, the concept died in America with the American Revolution and has further been depleted...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For us Americans, the worst thing you can do is live a boring life. That's why things like Facebook and Twitter and Youtube exist - to help us tell others how awesome we are doing life. It's why we need to filter cheeseburger pictures with the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How many Bibles do you own? Seven? Ten? More? Think about what that would mean to people before 20th century. They would just be in awe of the access that we have to God's Word. How many notes and cross references, dictionaries, commentaries,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Does the request, "Pray for me," make you cringe when you're asked by others? How? For what? When? How many times? What words should I use? Should I even pray for that request or that person? Maybe you're on the opposite end, "I'll pray for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Today, Pastor John Samuel Barnett encourages us to realize that our spiritual life and our prayer life should never be tied to whether or not we came from a devout Christian family or what our current circumstances are. The fact that not everyone...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When starting a new habit or a new hobby, the hardest part is continuing after the first week. Working out at the gym and experiencing a "leg day" and unable to be sure if you'll walk again without muscle pain. Or learning to play the guitar and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Yankee's catcher, Yogi Berra, was known for having pithy sayings. In a game, Joe Garagiola stepped up to the plate and made the sign of the cross in the dirt on home plate. Berra erased the dirt and said, "Let's let God watch this inning." What...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
