Maturing as Believers 

Today, believers more often describe ourselves and others as Christians rather than disciples. And in changing the word that we use to describe ourselves, we have lost the clarity the word “disciple” conveyed about what a follower of Jesus actually is. In biblical terms, "Christian" is a broad label often used culturally, whereas "disciple" strictly means a learner, apprentice, or active follower. Our use of “Christian” today obscures the fact that a lot of people who call th

Why did God make us? To intimately know Him! What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? Intimate knowledge of God: “This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3). Fulfilling God's purpose brings profound meaning, inner peace, and direction to your life. It aligns your daily actions with a higher calling, resulting in deeper personal fulfillment, and the assurance that your life is making an eternal, posi

There is a hopelessness of those without God who have nothing they can be sure of in the life to come, and so they have hope only in this world and are, therefore, truly most miserable. They drown their misery in alcohol, they drown their misery in sex, they drown their misery in entertainment, they drown their misery in acquisition, they drown it in sequential relationships. Somehow, some way they try to make something out of their hopelessness - quite different from those w

Heard someone say, “I have to speak life over my situation” because my current circumstances aren’t well. Based on Scripture ALONE, is this a biblical practice? Is this a faith based practice for believers? If so, where can it be found in the Bible? The belief that human words carry inherent, creative power to shape physical reality is unbiblical. According to Scripture, only God possesses the power to create ex nihilo (out of nothing) just by speaking (Romans 4:17). What did