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We need to take stock in the kinds of investments we are making. Ask somebody who knows you well what they have observed your priorities to be. What does the way you spend money or plan your calendar or live your life in general tell them about you? If your life is like mine, you would probably have to conclude that we are making far to big of an investment in a world that is soon going to come to a fiery end. And truthfully, that’s a very bad investment.
Read: II Peter 2 “But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you.” (II Peter 2:1) Oswald Chambers said, “The Bible treats us as human life does—roughly.” In the entire second chapter of Peter’s second letter, the Apostle really goes after some [...]
What makes the Bible any different from all the other religious books that exist throughout the world? And why should you be so singularly devoted to it when there is so much other positive and uplifting literature available to help you to be a better version of you? The answer is easy: No other book but the Bible has been authored by God himself.
Someone has said that “worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow.” English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, “Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon—for He’s told us to take no care for the morrow.” So rather than holding onto those worries allowing them to become a river of fear, cast them onto God.
Read: I Peter 2-3 Live such good lives among your unbelieving neighbors that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. (I Peter 2:12) One of the greatest examples given to us in Scripture of integrity [...]
Read: I Peter 2-3 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation. (I Peter 2:2) What do you crave? Perhaps like me, at various times you crave a variety of “things” — comfort, success, wealth, respect, power, relationships, and among [...]
How great a salvation you and I enjoy! No other creature can experience the greatest gift that God has made available in his entire universe. No other being but mankind can take part in the most powerful miracle of all—bigger than the creation of the worlds, bigger than the parting of the Red Sea, bigger than any other sensational miracle in the Bible—and that is the miracle of the new birth. God’s best miracle took place when you were born again!
Ray Noah
Lead Pastor of Portland Christian Center
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