Let love be genuine. That’s a tough one. How do we show genuine love for one another?
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As I was reading Romans 12, “do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” my mind went down one of those strange hallways my wife says my mind is filled with. I began thinking about the weird names of towns like Yellville, Arkansas, and Pumpkin Center, Missouri.
The early church was growing by leaps and bounds, and suddenly, the Disciples found themselves doing everything except what they were truly called to do in Matthew 28, “preach and teach the Good News of Jesus to all the world.” It probably wasn’t easy for them to delegate the other responsibilities of ministry to others.
I want to dip back into yesterday’s reading from Acts to talk about one of my very favorite characters in the New Testament. Apart from his journeys with Paul, Barnabas is only mentioned once. This one verse gives us an insight into both his character and heart.
In Acts 4 we find Peter and John in trouble for proclaiming the Good News of Jesus.
After an afternoon of visiting several members in hospital, which took much longer than expected, I phoned my wife and told her not to wait on me for supper. I was an hour away from home and decided to stop at a burger joint. I happened to be driving the church van.
Thanksgiving has just passed, and it always makes me think of Potluck Suppers.
God reminds His people through Moses that He provided for them and that they would now be in a much better place where they would prosper and have the freedom they did not have, and they were only to remember that it was and would be God who provided.
The difficult situations we go through are how our heart is corrected if, at the same time, we are clinging to God and His Word.
Antonio is a man who was 58 years old at the time, worked in the city government’s offices, and was there for a good part of his life. Antonio and his wife have three children: two girls and a boy.