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“If you’re doing what is good, shouldn’t you hold your head high? And if you don’t do what is good, sin is crouching at the door—it wants you, but you can rule over it.” What important lesson is God teaching here?
Certainly, Kayin was not doing what is good…he allowed the evil inclination (yetzer harah) to take over and he ends up attacking Hevel in the field and kills him.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...He put everything in its place. and He saw that it was good! Have you ever looked out in nature and pondered the mysteries of life? Let’s take a closer look at the Creation Story and discover Creator God’s patterns of design and purpose. What spiritual lessons can we learn from the creation of our physical world?
”If a person doesn’t move from intellectual awareness of God and right thinking about God to an emotional embrace of God, he hasn’t loved God with his mind. The mind has not yet loved until it hands off its thoughts to the emotions where they’re embraced. And then the mind and the heart are working in what feels like such harmony, and you experience it as both intellectual and affectional love for God.” —John Piper
1 Timothy - “Now to the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and
ever. Amen.” / “God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King
of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and
who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen
or can see. To him be honour and might forever. Amen.”
BLESSING:: a declaration of good will and happiness that is said about another, as well as the condition that fulfills those good words. Statements of blessing are a wish for God to restore His favour on others OR a declaration of His inherent goodness. Click Here Study Guide
You may have heard the story of the events surrounding Jesus' birth many times.
It is a story typically revisited around Christmas time. There is a great significance in the details of this event that might often overlook because we are used to taking the story as folklore.
KEY TEXT:: “Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.” —1 Thessalonians 5:18 [The Message]
KEY TEXT:: Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
People try to “find themselves” by opening themselves to various things (trying things out). Once they find something that seems to work they give themselves to it…sometimes indiscriminately. When we have a sense of belonging we feel significant, secure, and accepted.
KEY TEXT:: My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26
KEY TEXT:: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened by a yoke of slavery.—Galatians 5:1
KEY TEXT:: Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 1 Cor. 12:12-13
KEY TEXT:: You also, like living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ Jesus. —1 Peter 2:5
KEY TEXT:: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.”
― Blaise Pascal