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Tag Archives: Christian growth
Life is a journey, not a parking garage
Life is designed to be travel — a journey to wisdom. It was never intended to be a parking garage. The way you live is up to you. You have the power to use your life for love or hate, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christian growth, Christianity, journey with God, spirittuality, spiritual growth, spiritual maturity
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Lookin’ like a Christian?
Posted in character, faithfulness, gentleness, godliness, goodness, inner peace, joy, kindness, love, patience, peace, self-control, Uncategorized
Tagged Christian, Christian growth, Christianity, fruit of the Spirit, spiritual fruit, video
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Spiritual body building or religious institutionalism?
Early Christianity was a joyous, loving, holy, and supernatural lifestyle, not a religious affiliation. Christians are called to be body builders — to build up the body of Christ by ministering to one another. (See Ephesians 4:16.) Institutionalism has splintered Christ’s body … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, change management, Christianity, growth in grace, how to grow spiritually, It's Supernatural, Scriptures, Sid Roth's It's Supernatural, supernatural, Uncategorized
Tagged body building, change, Christian growth, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, spirituality, working out
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Bystanders vs. spiritual revolutionaries
Too many Christians have been trained to be bystanders and onlookers rather than spiritual revolutionaries. If you look at church as a training center, what is it training Christians to do? Sit and listen. Perhaps pastors need to be coaches … Continue reading
Posted in as many as are led by the Spirit, church, God's power, power, preaching, sermons, Spirit-led, Spirit-prompted, spiritual power, spiritual training, Uncategorized, worship
Tagged Christian growth, Christianity, Jesus revolution, reveloutionaries, revolution, spiritual warfare, spirituality
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Spiritual paraplegics & pastor dependency
Instead of training and releasing people to follow and obey the living Jesus, churches tend to make people spiritual paraplegics. Perhaps sitting passively in church isn’t the kind of exercise that builds spiritual muscle. When people are made spiritually dependent on a … Continue reading
Posted in call to ministry, growing in grace, Let go and let God, ministry, one man ministry, pastor, pastoring, pastors, pulpit ministry, purpose of a pastor, Sunday morning, Uncategorized
Tagged Christian growth, Christianity, new winskins, pastor dependency, spiritual growth, spiritual muscle, Trekkies
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Are you light-hearted?
Christ-followers are Called to be light-hearted, Full of inner brightness, Radiating love, hope, and joy, Shinning like beacons in the night. However, too often our hearts Have absorbed the darkness Of our distressed and discouraged world. Rather than dancing lights, … Continue reading
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