Renewal Church

Phil 4:4-8 ->  Sometimes we confuse joy with happiness. Joy is not grounded in your circumstances, it is grounded in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Eph 2:11-22-> The journey that you and I have been on in our own lives: from being an alien and stranger to God’s promises, to being a recipient of His saving grace, call us to honor Him in our relationships because He lives among us. God the Holy Spirit makes His people His dwelling place.

1 Peter 4:7-11

1 Peter 3:13-22

In the Bible, the term righteous is less about how a person defines himself and more about a person believing and behaving in a way that invites the divine approval of God.

Husbanding to the Glory of God

Matthew 18:21-35

The impact of marriage in the context of the Christian life can never be overstated. We know that marriage is not the standard for every Christian. God can use our single brothers and sisters powerfully; but that every marriage with at least one Christian in it has a giant target on it, and the enemy’s sights focused on that target.

The question is not whether you want to be in true community. The question is whether you want to follow Jesus, whether you really want to be more like Jesus. The people of God are ‘a people’, and if you are a sincere Christ-follower, you are called to join in the messiness with people who are not like you, who challenge you, who force you to grow, who take you out of your traditional way of thinking and feeling, who can bless you if you let them, but who will hurt you and require your forgiveness too.

Making the invitation TO Jesus as we invite people to church requires clarity about what we are really doing. But what is also important about the invitation is that it is DIVINE. The work of God is behind it.