Christ In Us For Others – Part 1

by Larry Browning “Christ in us for others”—This should be every Christian’s motto. “One another” should be one of the key phrases in a believer’s vocabulary. “Love one another” is found at least a dozen times in the New Testament, along with “pray one for another,” “edify one another,” “prefer one another,” and “be hospitable […]

Christ In Us For Others – Part 2

by Larry Browning Last week on our blog we began to look at how Christ living in us should lead us to love others and how that looks.  Let’s continue exploring that today. Christ In Us For Others – continued 2) Sharing Blessings (Galatians 6:6-10). Just as “one another” should be a key phrase in […]

Maybe We Pray More Than We Realize

Unceasing, incessant prayer is essential to the vitality of your relationship to the Lord and your ability to function in the world. But exactly what does it mean to pray without ceasing?

Reckon Ourselves Dead to Sin

Regardless of our feelings, we are to reckon on this great fact, —of our union with Christ in death and resurrection. “Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus“ (Romans 6:11). Note that Paul does not say, reckon sin dead to you. God‘s way of victory over […]

Growing in the Grace of God – Part 2

by Larry Browning Note:  This is the second and final part of this series (if you have not read the first part, click here to read that now). Legalism desires to add religious performance to grace, thereby appealing to the self-righteous hopes of man. Galatians 3:2-3 says, ”Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by […]

The Greatest Exchange

by Brad Jolly As a kid, did you ever dream of becoming somebody else?  Maybe it was a sports figure, a musician, entertainer, or maybe the star quarterback of your high school football team.  I know that you might be laughing as you recall that memory, but truthfully, we have all done this.  We look […]

Growing in the Grace of God – Part 1

by Larry Browning 2 Peter 3:18 – ”But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” God wants us to know His grace. He wants us to learn about it, and then experience it at work in our lives. Grace has rightly been described as “unmerited favor.” The acronym, “God’s […]

Total Surrender

by Larry Browning So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man [on the cross], you will know then [without any doubt] that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but I say these things just as My Father taught Me. 29And He who sent Me is [always] […]