Series: Topical Studies

Christmas is about the nearness of God. Christmas represented the day when heaven’s beauty was born in the middle of earth’s pain….

-Pastor Josh

“Sometimes God humbles us with the inability to control our circumstances in order to silence our unbelief and bring forth faith.”

-Pastor Josh

2nd Corinthians 5:17-6:3

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:22-27

2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!”

4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 61:2-4

“Perhaps true revival is not merely our response to God’s divine movement but also God’s response to our availability and willingness”

Jesus asks the man to “take up his bed and walk”.  Obviously, He wanted to see if they would see the miracle or cry foul.  He could have said, “Leave your mat behind and get out of this place”.    

John 5:1-15

“Many Christians and church congregations have abandoned the dynamic power of true Spirit lead praise, worship, and the sacrifice of their lips to God. They have fallen into the rut and rote worship of religion by the letter when God really wants them to worship in Spirit and truth. We ought to know better, but to many of us don’t act like it.”

Garlington

Psalm 32
32 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not [b]impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit…….