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Core Commitments For Christian Living
Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 5, 2022 (message contributor)
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1. Pray Your Heart Out
Contributed on Apr 5, 2022
There are at least four core commitments for Christian living. One is abiding in the Word. A second one is to pray your heart out.
IMPRISONMENT OF CHRISTIANS IN CHINA is on the upswing. One report says there has been a drastic increase of assaults on Christians over the last year. That’s China, but that’s not the only place it’s happening. You can probably guess the other countries that are among the most hazardous for ...read more
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2. Abiding In The Word
Contributed on Apr 5, 2022
There are at least four core commitments for Christian living. The first is abiding in the Word.
A FEW YEARS BACK, when I was still serving as pastor at another church, we had two visitors show up at our church, a father and his son. These guys are from British Columbia in Canada, and they were on a road trip through the southern states. They are both men of God, and there was no question in ...read more
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3. Be Killing Sin
Contributed on Apr 5, 2022
There are at least four core commitments for Christian living. The first is to abide in the Word. The second is to pray your heart out. And the third is to be killing sin.
ARE YOU READY? HOW MANY TIMES, do you think, have you been asked that question? Back in 1965, The Impressions released their album, People Get Ready, with its title song of the same name. It immediately rose to number three on the charts. So powerful was the song that it became a classic of the ...read more
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4. Give Your Life Away
Contributed on Apr 5, 2022
There are at least four core commitments for Christian living: (1) abide in the Word, (2) pray your heart out, (3) be killing sin, and (4) give your life away.
Our lives tell a story—a story about who we are and what we value, where we’ve come from and where we’re going, what we want and what we’ll do to get it. And what most of us do is, we make “the story” of our lives about us. But God makes “the story” of our lives about Christ. Someone has said, ...read more
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5. Putting It All Together
Contributed on Apr 5, 2022
It's nonsense to build our lives on a lie, but people do it. God calls us to build on a foundation of truth.
There is nothing quite so destructive as a lie. No one wants to be lied to. It is nothing short of betrayal. And no one wants to be lied about. It is an ugly and contemptuous act. The Bible traces our worst problems back to a lie. The serpent, remember, asked the woman whether it was true what he ...read more