Clean Hands and a Pure Heart

Clean Hands: James 4:8 (KJV) Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! What does it mean to be double-minded?  The definition of double minded according to the Miriam Webster Dictionary: 1 wavering in mind : undecided, vacillating a double–minded man unstable…… Continue reading Clean Hands and a Pure Heart

Is Your Life about Pursuing Good Things or GOD THINGS?

1 Thessalonians 2:4  (HCSB) Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.  Galatians 1:10 (KJV) For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet…… Continue reading Is Your Life about Pursuing Good Things or GOD THINGS?

“Knowing God” and “Obeying the Gospel” Pt. 2

Obeying the Gospel 2 Thessalonians 1:5-8 It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering, 6 since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you and to reward with rest you who are afflicted, along with…… Continue reading “Knowing God” and “Obeying the Gospel” Pt. 2

“Knowing God” and “Obeying the Gospel” Pt. 1

KNOWING GOD 2 Thessalonians 1:5-8 It is a clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment that you will be counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also are suffering, 6 since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you and to reward with rest you who are afflicted, along with us.…… Continue reading “Knowing God” and “Obeying the Gospel” Pt. 1